1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,679 Speaker 1: Hey, thank you for listening to Elevation with Stephen Verdick. 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: Make sure you listen and follow along with Elevation with 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: Stephen Ferdick on Amazon Music and don't forget. You can 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 1: also just ask Alexa, Hey, Alexa, can you play Elevation 5 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: with Stephen Ferdick on Amazon Music. Also with Amazon Music Unlimited, 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 1: you can now listen to all your favorite music, podcasts 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: and audiobooks all on the Amazon Music app. 8 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 2: The Lord has been speaking to me. 9 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 3: Open your Bible, say standing, John Chapter twelve. You're like, well, 10 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 3: Pastor Stephen, we were only in John one last week. 11 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 2: How did we get to John twelve so quick? Easter's coming. 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 2: We had to hit fast forward. We're skipping a few scenes, 13 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 2: but we're going to. 14 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 3: See the Lord ride in to Jerusalem on a donkey, 15 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 3: and we're going to see what that means for me 16 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:53,319 Speaker 3: and for you. John, Chapter twelve, Verse twelve. I want 17 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 3: to give a couple of birthday greetings. It is the 18 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 3: thirteenth birthday of our Toronto campus. 19 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 2: Let's thank God for elevation. To praise the Lord. 20 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 3: Stephen Kristen, the whole crew at Toronto, y'all go crazy, 21 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 3: y'all celebrate today. 22 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 2: It's a big birthday. 23 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 3: Our Raleigh location is moving into their brand new building today. 24 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 2: Let's go Raleigh. 25 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,199 Speaker 3: I'm gonna have resurrection Sunday and Raleigh in a brand 26 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 3: new building, and it's gonna be amazing. 27 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 2: Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord. 28 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 3: This occasion that we celebrate today, of course, is mitigated 29 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 3: in his joy by the fact that for Jesus it 30 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 3: would represent his sacrifice as he rides into Jerusalem to 31 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 3: give his life for you and I. 32 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 2: Now let me read the. 33 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 3: Passage from John chapter twelve, verses twelve through sixteen, picking 34 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 3: up right here mid flow. The next day, the great 35 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 3: crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was. 36 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 2: On his way to Rusalem. 37 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 3: They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, Hosanna, 38 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 3: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 39 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 3: Blessed is the King of Israel. Now watch what Jesus did. 40 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 3: A study in contrast, here are these loud shouts from 41 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 3: the crowd, and Jesus verse fourteen, found a young donkey 42 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 3: and set on it. As it is written, do not 43 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 3: be afraid, daughter's ion, see your king is coming. In 44 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 3: that good news your king is coming. Then that bless 45 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 3: you to know your king is coming. Tell somebody next 46 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 3: to you, the King is coming. The King is coming, 47 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 3: the king. The King is coming. The King is coming. 48 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 3: See your king is coming. 49 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 2: Seated on a donkey's colt. That's unexpected. 50 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 3: Last week we talked about the staying Jesus, when we 51 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 3: talked about the seeking Jesus. 52 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 2: This week we're going to talk about the. 53 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 3: Seated Jesus seated on a donkey's colt. 54 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 2: Now, one more verse I want to give you, then 55 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:14,239 Speaker 2: you can be seated. This is what I want to 56 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:15,079 Speaker 2: talk to you about today. 57 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 3: At first, his disciples did not understand all this. Only 58 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 3: after see some things only make sense after only after. 59 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 3: Don't worry too much right now about what you don't understand. 60 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 3: Some things only make sense. Only after Jesus was glorified 61 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 3: did they realize that these things had been written about him, 62 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 3: and that these things had been done to him. 63 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 2: And that's where I want to stop today. 64 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 3: I'm going to give this message a simple title, and 65 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 3: then we might call it something different online, but I'm 66 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 3: just going to put it after a question. Today, give 67 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 3: your neighbor my title, look at him and say, what 68 00:03:57,640 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 3: are you doing. 69 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 2: What are you doing? 70 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 3: That's the message today, Well, don't answer them, just just 71 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 3: a setup for a sermon. 72 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 2: You don't have to give them a report, sit out. 73 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 2: You may be seated. What are you doing? Very common question? 74 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 3: Right you might just ask somebody that call them on 75 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 3: the phone, what are you doing? 76 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:22,679 Speaker 2: Is it a good time or is it a bad time? 77 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,919 Speaker 2: What are you doing? You might have asked your kids 78 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:27,359 Speaker 2: at the other day, what are you doing? 79 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 3: You might've had a different tone and inflection to it 80 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 3: that way, what are you doing? 81 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 2: And sometimes you might ask yourself that, you. 82 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 3: Know, after an hour of scrolling stuff that you really 83 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 3: don't want to look at, you're not even really interested in, 84 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 3: and you don't even really like cats, but you've been 85 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 3: watching them do stuff on your phone for like forty 86 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 3: five minutes, what are you doing? What are you you 87 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 3: know what I'm talking about, like halfway through the stress 88 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:55,559 Speaker 3: eating exercise, and you're like, what are you doing? 89 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 2: You know? 90 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 3: You know, like anytime I eat brisket after six thirty pm, 91 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 3: I'm like, what are you doing? 92 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 2: You know, this brisket is gonna make an Encore appearance 93 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,720 Speaker 2: tonight at about three am. What are you doing? I 94 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 2: just like the brisket. I don't know. 95 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 3: I don't have time to slow down and think about 96 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 3: it and analyze it. 97 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 2: What are you doing? Then? 98 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 3: There is that sense of a season of your life 99 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 3: when you even asked that question of God. Seasons where 100 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 3: it is not obvious or a parent, Seasons where you 101 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:28,919 Speaker 3: cannot point to answered prayers. 102 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 2: What are you doing? 103 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 3: Seasons where you can't discern why He would remove a 104 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:37,559 Speaker 3: certain someone from your life? 105 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 2: What are you doing? I needed them? Lord? Don't you 106 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 2: know I needed them? What are you doing? What are 107 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 2: you doing? Lord? 108 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 3: Like God, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and 109 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 3: give me a job right now, cause I got bills 110 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 3: right now. And I know that there's gonna be streets 111 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 3: paid with gold in heaven, but right now that is 112 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:02,479 Speaker 3: not currency for me to pay my power bill right 113 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:03,919 Speaker 3: here on this earth that you put me on. 114 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 2: Lord, What are you doing? 115 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 3: And that's what I want to preach about today, because 116 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,160 Speaker 3: you know, the disciples are not the only characters in 117 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 3: this story that I read you from John chapter twelve 118 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 3: that we call Palm Sunday. I actually want to look 119 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 3: at four different perspectives today from this passage. 120 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 2: And this is the way I'd like. 121 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 3: To take you through the journey, because we're going to 122 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 3: see what four different characters or groups were doing in 123 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 3: the story. 124 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 2: First, we're going to look at the disciples and see 125 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 2: what they're doing. 126 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 3: And then we're gonna look at the crowds, the crowds 127 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 3: that were gathered, and we're going to see what the 128 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 3: crowds are doing. And then we're going to look at 129 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 3: the donkey and talk about what the donkey was doing. 130 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 3: And then I want to talk about the king and 131 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 3: see what he was doing. The disciples, the crowds, the donkeys, 132 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 3: and the king. 133 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 2: And we'll have our outline for today. 134 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 3: Everybody say, the disciples, the crowds, the donkey, the King. 135 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 3: Put all four of those in the comments you're watching online. 136 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 3: Put the disciples, the crowds, the donkey, and the king. 137 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 2: What are you doing well? 138 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 3: The disciples, of course, are walking with Jesus, which sounds simple, 139 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 3: and it is simple until it isn't. 140 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 2: It's easy for. 141 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 3: Us to judge the disciples when we read a verse 142 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 3: like John twelve sixteen. At first, his disciples did not 143 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 3: understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they 144 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 3: realize these things had been written about him. And that 145 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 3: these things had been done to him. There is a 146 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 3: part of you that wants to say, after all you've seen, 147 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 3: and after all you've experienced walking with Jesus, how could 148 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 3: you still be wondering what he is doing? 149 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 2: But keep in mind. 150 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 3: Before you judge the disciples, that we know what they don't. 151 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 3: When you read John chapter twelve, you have an advantage 152 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 3: over the disciples because you know what they don't. 153 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 2: You know about the Third Day they don't. 154 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 3: You know perhaps about the Messianic fulfillment that is represented 155 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 3: in this passage, because you have a cross reference in 156 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 3: your Bible, and it says if you want to read 157 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 3: John chapter twelve, verse fifteen about the King writing on 158 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 3: a cult baby donkey, that that's taken from Zechariah nine 159 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 3: to nine, which is in the Old Testament. And just 160 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 3: as soon as you can flip the pages, you can go, oh, well, 161 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 3: of course he wrote on a donkey. Zechariah prophesied it 162 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 3: five hundred years ago. He's fulfilling prophecy. They don't know 163 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 3: that because they are living that. And certain things in 164 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 3: your life while you are living them don't look like 165 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 3: they look after they're over. There's a difference between looking 166 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 3: at something and living in something. So when we see 167 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 3: Jesus riding in on a donkey, we see it as 168 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 3: a sign of humility and peace and prophecy fulfilled. 169 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 2: For them, it was very confusing to watch them master 170 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:01,719 Speaker 2: in the ceo of. 171 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 3: The universe, uber into Jerusalem to do the most important 172 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,559 Speaker 3: task that a human has ever done. 173 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 2: You know what they don't. 174 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 3: And it's important to remember that we get a big 175 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 3: picture of Jesus. 176 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:14,680 Speaker 2: From John's Gospel. 177 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 3: We know about him turning water into wine, and they 178 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 3: saw that. And we know about him talking to a 179 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 3: woman at a well and they saw that. 180 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 2: And we know about him feeding five thousand hungry souls 181 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 2: and women and children, and they saw that. 182 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,959 Speaker 3: But they saw all these things while they walked with him. 183 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 3: And we worship him because we read about these things. 184 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,479 Speaker 3: But they had to walk with him as they realize 185 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 3: these things. And sometimes it is easier to worship a 186 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,079 Speaker 3: Jesus that you read about than it is to walk 187 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 3: with a Jesus who is frustrating your expectations and confusing 188 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 3: your emotions by heading to the cross when you need 189 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:55,719 Speaker 3: him to be a king. So I just want to 190 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 3: talk about for a moment, for all of you who 191 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 3: are going through a season of your life, it looks 192 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 3: like what are you doing? 193 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 2: Keep walking? Keep walking? 194 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 3: Because the what ifs that you have about your marriage, 195 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 3: the what ifs that you have about your health, the 196 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 3: what ifs that you have about your children, the what 197 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,319 Speaker 3: ifs that you have about your career, the what ifs 198 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 3: that you have about your emotions, the what ifs that 199 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 3: you have will only be answered when you walk. So 200 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 3: keep walking. That's all the Disciples did. They walked with him. 201 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 3: The disciples are walking. Everybody say the Disciples are walking, 202 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 3: and the disciples are walking with the Jesus that they 203 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 3: do not fully understand even though they have been radically changed, 204 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 3: even though they have been wonderfully exposed. The disciples are 205 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 3: living in it. And there is a difference between living 206 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 3: in it and looking at it. Now you're like you already 207 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 3: said that, I'm going to say it again, because it 208 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,559 Speaker 3: is so easy for you to look at somebody else's 209 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 3: life and envy them and. 210 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:00,559 Speaker 2: Be jealous of them. 211 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 3: But you might be jealous of a life that you're 212 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 3: only seeing the front side of. And if you ever 213 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 3: saw the backside of their life, you might not be 214 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 3: bitter about yours. Because there is a chance that the 215 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 3: cost that they are paying to be who they are 216 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:16,680 Speaker 3: is greater than the toll that you would want to pay. 217 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 3: So don't be jealous, and also don't judge. Don't judge 218 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 3: because we are all walking. We are like the Disciples. 219 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 3: There are things that we don't understand, and we will not. 220 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 3: Until after I heard about a poem that Corey ten. 221 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 2: Boom used to love. 222 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:41,679 Speaker 3: I thought that she wrote it, but I found out 223 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 3: that she was quoting it from Grant Colfax Tuller, who 224 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 3: was a poet. And I want you to listen to 225 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 3: this because she read it as a Holocaust survivor. She 226 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 3: read it after forgiving people who tortured her family. She 227 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 3: read it after surviving something that most of us would 228 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 3: have stumbled over. And she read this poem called the Weaver. 229 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,440 Speaker 3: My life is but a weaving between my God and me. 230 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 3: I cannot choose the colors. He weaveth steadily. Oftentimes he 231 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 3: weaveth sorrow, and I, in foolish pride, forget He sees 232 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 3: the upper and I. 233 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 2: The underside the underside. 234 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:37,199 Speaker 3: Not till the loom is silent and the shuttles cease 235 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 3: to fly, will God unroll the canvas and reveal the 236 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 3: reason why the dark threads are as needful in the 237 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 3: weaver's skillful hand as the threads of gold and silver 238 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:57,319 Speaker 3: in the pattern he is planned. What she's saying is, 239 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 3: I don't see the picture from my perspective. I don't 240 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 3: see what his hands are doing while I am going 241 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 3: through the hardships of my life. And it is the 242 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 3: weaver that I worship, and I walk with him and 243 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 3: I talk with him, but I often wonder, what are 244 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 3: you doing? 245 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 2: I can tell I might need to break this down 246 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 2: a little bit. So let me show you something. Holly 247 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 2: and I have a great marriage. Great marriage. 248 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, I picked the right partner and I'm reaping the 249 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:37,679 Speaker 3: benefits ever since. Praise the Lord for our twentieth anniversary. 250 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 3: A while back, Shell made us this, this cross stitch. 251 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:51,719 Speaker 2: Can you see it kind of right? Like you can 252 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 2: kind of tell what it is. It kind of looks 253 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 2: like she didn't do a good job. 254 00:13:58,040 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 3: It kind of looks like she needs to go back 255 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 3: to cross the class take a couple remedial weeks. 256 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 2: But of course, if you see the other side, you 257 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 2: can see she did pretty good. 258 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 3: You can see she made me look just like I 259 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 3: did on that faithful day with no beard, standing before 260 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 3: my wife in my s and case suit about three 261 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 3: sizes too big for me. 262 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 2: And there we are like this on this side. But 263 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 2: every marriage does have an underside. 264 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 3: And I just want you to remember when you look 265 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 3: at everybody's Easter pictures on Instagram in about a week, 266 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 3: they're showing this, but they probably went through this in 267 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 3: the car before they got. 268 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 2: The seers to take the picture. 269 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 3: That's a callback reference from the eighties. 270 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying. This is zen back in, y'all, 271 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 2: What are you doing this? This is what it looks like, 272 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 2: and this is how it's lived. I said, this is 273 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 2: what it looks like, and this is how it's lived. 274 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 3: She got out the car the other day and she 275 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 3: asked me, does my hair look good messy or bad messy. Now, 276 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 3: after twenty something years, I can tell you that the 277 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 3: answer to that automatically is good messy. But I can 278 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 3: also tell you there is a difference between good messy. 279 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 2: And bad messy. And good messy is when you. 280 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 3: Are trusting God in your life to work out the 281 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 3: details that you can't control, and you are trusting God's 282 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 3: sovereignty in your life for situations that are too big 283 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 3: for you. Good messy is in a marriage where we 284 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 3: fight for the marriage, where we fight with each other 285 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 3: instead of against each other, and we fight for each 286 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 3: other because every marriage has an underside. Every marriage that 287 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 3: looks like this looks like like this somewhere. Every marriage 288 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 3: that looks like this where the couple has their debts 289 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 3: paid off, had conversations about are you really bringing that 290 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 3: coffee table into my house? 291 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 2: And did it really cost? 292 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 3: I remember the first time she told me she wanted 293 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 3: to spend four hundred dollars on a coffee table. I said, 294 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 3: you better find one that has some dings and dents 295 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 3: in it. 296 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 2: You better find. 297 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 3: One that's busted out the top of it. Four hundred 298 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 3: dollars for a coffee table. See, because we are still 299 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 3: weaving together our values for money, she has a value for. 300 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 2: A coffee table. 301 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 3: I didn't even drink coffee at the time. How am 302 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 3: I supposed to pay four hundred dollars for something I 303 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 3: don't even drink I'm not even gonna use. It looks 304 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 3: like this Every marriage, in terms of sexual relationships, in 305 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 3: terms of communication, in terms of conflict management, it always 306 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 3: looks like this. So what I'm trying to say is 307 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 3: don't confuse what it looks. 308 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 2: Like with how it's lived. 309 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 3: Or you might give up on something great because of 310 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 3: something gross, and you might give up on something miraculous 311 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 3: because of something mess. And when God is bringing something 312 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 3: together in your life, remember you have to trust him 313 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 3: with the underside. 314 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 2: That might be the whole word for somebody today. 315 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:17,679 Speaker 3: Trust him with the underside. I know as ugly, but 316 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:21,159 Speaker 3: trust him. I know it's crazy, but trust him. I 317 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 3: know it's confusing, but trust him. 318 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 2: I know it's not coming. 319 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 3: Together as fast as you want it, but trust him. 320 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 3: I know you can't figure out what it is yet, 321 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 3: but trust him. I know everybody around you is acting 322 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 3: kind of judgmental, but don't judge the underside. 323 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 2: Because in God's hand. 324 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 3: The dark threads are just as important as the light threads, 325 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 3: and all things work together for the good of them 326 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 3: who are called according to his purpose. 327 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,120 Speaker 2: So if he called me according. 328 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 3: To his purpose, that means there will be an underside 329 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 3: that he oversees, and I cannot judge what he's making 330 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 3: by the moment that I'm in, or I will be 331 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 3: like to decide that saw the cross as a failure. 332 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 2: But this was not the failure. This was the foundation. 333 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:10,120 Speaker 3: And isn't it amazing that the disciples walked with Jesus 334 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 3: into the most confusing moments of their life? But the 335 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 3: most confusing moment was the one that he used the most. 336 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 3: I can tell you, looking back on forty six years 337 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 3: of living, that some of the times that I was 338 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 3: most confused were some of the times that he most used. 339 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 3: So don't give up on God just because you're on 340 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 3: the underside. It might be ugly on the underside, it 341 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 3: might be uncomfortable. On the other side, it may be inconvenient. 342 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 3: On the underside, it may be embarrassing, it may be humiliating. 343 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 3: You might have to ask some questions you may not 344 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 3: understand until after when Jesus was glorified, they got it. 345 00:18:54,240 --> 00:19:00,719 Speaker 3: And then they went, oh is this? And the faith 346 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 3: is to the faith is to make it through the 347 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 3: lows so you can get to the oh. Oh. And meanwhile, 348 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 3: the disciples are walking and the crowds that's number two 349 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:31,880 Speaker 3: are waving, and they are waving palm branches. 350 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 2: And these palm branches are not random. 351 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 3: I remember a few years ago in church, actually it 352 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 3: must have been about fifteen years ago, because this is 353 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:41,920 Speaker 3: back when I used to copy everything my buddy Perry 354 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 3: Noble did in church. 355 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 2: God I know what I was doing. 356 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 3: And he had people break these glove sticks one Sunday 357 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 3: and on Palm Sunday they all raised them in the 358 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 3: air and they were singing, shine your light and let 359 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 3: the whole world see for the glory of. 360 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 2: The risen King. 361 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 3: And everybody broke the glow stick and raised it up 362 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,160 Speaker 3: in the air on Palm Sunday, and we were using 363 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 3: it to represent all the people we wanted to see 364 00:19:59,040 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 3: come to Christ. 365 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,199 Speaker 2: And we're raising the glow sticks. And I read this 366 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:03,159 Speaker 2: young girl on Twitter. 367 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:05,120 Speaker 3: She said, my mom asked me, did we have palm 368 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:06,679 Speaker 3: branches in church on Palm Sunday? 369 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 2: And I had to tell her no, they had glow sticks. 370 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 3: And I was like, that's just elevation, right, Like not 371 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 3: a lot. 372 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 2: Of tradition around here. 373 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 3: In fact, this is the first time I've preached on 374 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 3: the donkey on Palm Sunday in about ten to fifteen years. 375 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 3: But before I can even talk about the donkey, I 376 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 3: got to talk about the crowds, because we named this 377 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 3: Sunday after what the crowds held in their hand. 378 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 2: And what they waved as a sign of victory. 379 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 3: The palm branch represented victory, like when a great conquering. 380 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 2: King would take a. 381 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 3: New territory and come back into town on a war horse. 382 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 3: They would wave these palm branches and these myrtles, and 383 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 3: they would. 384 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:57,399 Speaker 4: Shout, Josanna, bless this he who comes here in the 385 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 4: name of the Lord. 386 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 3: And they do us three times, blessed is he, because 387 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 3: the victor was coming back, and they would wave the 388 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 3: branches tumba Josanda, blessed it is he. This is a 389 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 3: scripture that they were quoting from Psalm twenty eighteen, verse 390 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 3: twenty six. 391 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 4: Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of 392 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 4: the Lord. 393 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 3: Now Jesus is headed to a cross, and he's coming 394 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 3: through Jerusalem, and about one hundred and twenty thousand people 395 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 3: are gathered to celebrate the Passover festival and is crowded 396 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 3: in the streets of Jerusalem, and they're shouting out save now. 397 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:41,880 Speaker 3: That's what Hosanna means, save now, because don't we want 398 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,400 Speaker 3: God to get it out of us and get us out. 399 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 2: Of it right now? 400 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 3: And don't we want God to do what He's gonna 401 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 3: do right now? And since they just got word that 402 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 3: Lazarus was in the ground, but he got up. Maybe 403 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 3: they figured that this prophet, this this priest, this messiah, 404 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 3: whatever he was, do for them what they had waited 405 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:06,200 Speaker 3: for the king to do. And so this they are shouting, Hosanna, 406 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 3: blessed is he who comes. 407 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,439 Speaker 2: In the name of the Lord, and they're shouting loud. 408 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,919 Speaker 3: I believe that as they are shouting Hosanna, which is 409 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 3: a praise word, Jesus can already hear the echoes of 410 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 3: crucify Him, which the same crowds would be shouting on Friday. 411 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 2: Don't never get too attached to people's praise. 412 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:33,160 Speaker 3: Don't ever get too attached to people's praise, because if 413 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 3: you live by it, you'll die. 414 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 2: When they take it away. 415 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,160 Speaker 3: Even don't be too attached to when your kids think 416 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,440 Speaker 3: you're a good parent. Sometimes you might have to take 417 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 3: their phone and they might call you the devil. Now 418 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 3: what you're gonna do about it? You run in a 419 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 3: popularity contest or a household. Don't be too attached to 420 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 3: people's praise. Don't even be too attached to your parent's praise. 421 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 3: Sometimes your parents see you as their product and they 422 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 3: can't even guide you as good as God can, because 423 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 3: they're trying to get you to fulfill something that they 424 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 3: didn't accomplish in their life. And only God can show 425 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 3: you what your next step is. So don't be too 426 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 3: attached to their praise. If you live when they give it, 427 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 3: you'll die when they take it away. Don't be too 428 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 3: attached to people's praise. Don't be too attached to the likes. 429 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 3: Don't be too attached to the encouragement of your boss. 430 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,239 Speaker 3: What you're gonna do if your boss moves divisions. 431 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:22,440 Speaker 2: What you're gonna do. 432 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,120 Speaker 3: If you get a boss that doesn't like you, You're 433 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 3: still gonna work hard because you're God's child. Jesus never 434 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,679 Speaker 3: moved by the approval of people. Jesus never moved for 435 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 3: the yaise of the crowds. 436 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 2: Jesus never moved for. 437 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 3: The high fives, even of his own disciples. Jesus was 438 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 3: not moved by the crowd. He moved through the crowd. 439 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 3: I'm going somewhere. The disciples are walking, The crowds are waving. 440 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 2: And they are shouting Hosanna. 441 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,159 Speaker 3: But they will not still be shouting when he is 442 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 3: led like the lamb to the slaughter. They will not 443 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,400 Speaker 3: still be shouting when pilot puts him up, turns him over, 444 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 3: and hangs him to die. Will not still be shouting 445 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 3: on Saturday when his body lays in a tomb. 446 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 2: What are you trying to say? 447 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 3: Don't confuse loud with loyal, don't confuse loud with loyal. 448 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 3: The crowds are waving, The crowds will wave, that's fine, 449 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 3: but Jesus was not. 450 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,440 Speaker 2: Moved by the crowds. 451 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,199 Speaker 3: And I don't know who this point is for, because 452 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 3: it's really just an incidental point to get me to 453 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,439 Speaker 3: the main point of this message. 454 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 2: Because while the crowds are waving. 455 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,919 Speaker 3: The donkey, can we talk about the donkey? I know 456 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 3: we're all impressed by Palm Sunday, Well why can't we 457 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,440 Speaker 3: call it donkey Sunday? 458 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 2: Because it doesn't have the same ring to it. 459 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 3: Because while the disciples are walking and the crowds are waving, 460 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 3: watch what the donkey is doing. 461 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:59,120 Speaker 2: The donkey is waiting, So. 462 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,879 Speaker 3: Now the crowd are walking, calm down for it to 463 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:03,399 Speaker 3: give it to him. 464 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 2: Slow. 465 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 3: The crowds are waving Hosanna, Hosannah, and the donkey is waiting. 466 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 2: Now this is really fun. 467 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 3: Go back to John chapter eleven, verse four, you know, 468 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 3: John doesn't give a lot of details about the donkey. 469 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 3: In fact, when he talks about the donkey, he says 470 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 3: something so simple you almost just read right over it, 471 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:28,360 Speaker 3: and said, Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it. 472 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 3: And that's all the details we get from John. John, 473 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 3: like a true man, just gives you the bottom line. 474 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 3: Hey found a donkey and he sat on it. But 475 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 3: you know what this tells me. I'm speculating, but I 476 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 3: have good reason. I study John wasn't one of the 477 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 3: disciples that got sent to get the donkey. That's what 478 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 3: it tells me. It's like my kids fighting around the table. 479 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 3: You know, they'll be trying to tell a story at 480 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,200 Speaker 3: dinner and they'll be like, shut up, let me tell it, 481 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 3: or I'm sorry. We're a church for pastor's family. Please bee, 482 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 3: please hark it onto my voice. That's what they say 483 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,399 Speaker 3: at my table. At your table, they say shut up 484 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:06,440 Speaker 3: at your house, what's. 485 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 2: Wrong with you? You're a terrible parent. 486 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,880 Speaker 3: They say, shut up is my story, let me tell it. 487 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 3: And I almost felt when John said Jesus found a 488 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 3: young donkey and sat on it and then just went 489 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,120 Speaker 3: right on to psalmone eighteen twenty six in the palm 490 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 3: branches and all of the wonderful things. I almost felt 491 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 3: Peter speak up and say, shut up, John, you weren't there. 492 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,360 Speaker 3: Let me tell it so in Mark's Gospel. Flip over 493 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 3: to Mark real quick, because this is the underside. This 494 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 3: is the side of the story from the one who 495 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 3: was there. In Mark chapter eleven, you get a little 496 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 3: fuller account. You get more than just Jesus found a 497 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 3: donkey and sat on it and rode on into Jerusalem. 498 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 3: You get a little bit clearer picture, and you get 499 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 3: a little bit more detailed. 500 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,880 Speaker 2: And I want to read it to you from Mark 501 00:26:59,000 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 2: chapter eleven. 502 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 3: As they approached Jerusalem, saying, disciples walking toward Jerusalem and 503 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 3: King Tibeth, Phage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, 504 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 3: Jesus sent two of his disciples. We don't know which too. 505 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 3: I'm speculating that it was Peter, based. 506 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 2: On the nature of the job. 507 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 3: You know, you got some disciples that you need to 508 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 3: pray for you, and then you have some disciples that 509 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 3: you need to do other stuff for you that isn't 510 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 3: quite as spiritual. 511 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,360 Speaker 2: And watch what Jesus told them to do Verse. 512 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 3: Two, saying to them go to the village ahead of. 513 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 2: You, and just as you enter it, you will find. 514 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:39,120 Speaker 3: A cult that's a baby donkey tied there which no 515 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 3: one has ever ridden. 516 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 2: Untie it and bring it here. 517 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 3: If anyone asks you why are you doing this, say 518 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:54,880 Speaker 3: the Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly, Skinner, 519 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 3: I can't skip over this and talk about the donkey 520 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 3: being borrowed because I'm thinking of the fact that Jesus 521 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 3: borrowed two things around Easter. 522 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,680 Speaker 2: One was a donkey and one was a tomb. 523 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 3: But see, it wasn't exactly borrowed the appropriate way, right. 524 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 3: This is not technically how you should borrow something, right, 525 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 3: And so that's why I think that Jesus needed Peter 526 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 3: to do something that was so dumb that it would 527 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 3: take a dumb disciple to do it. Do I have 528 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,920 Speaker 3: any dumb disciples in the room today who aren't the smartest, 529 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 3: who aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the drawer, But Jesus, 530 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 3: if you need something to hit something, I'll hit something 531 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 3: for you. 532 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 2: That's Peter. 533 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,959 Speaker 3: Peter's kind of dull, but he'll do it. Tell your neighbor, 534 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 3: I'm dull, but I'll do it. That's why I think 535 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 3: the Lord called me to start the church when I 536 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 3: was twenty five, when I was dumb enough to do stuff. 537 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 3: I didn't know how to run a profit and lost statement. 538 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 3: I didn't know how to check a ledger. All I 539 00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 3: knew how to do was ask the Lord. And if 540 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 3: the Lord told me to give everybody glow sticks, I 541 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 3: gave him a glow sticks. I didn't care if aunt 542 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 3: Ethel likeden or not. I was dumb enough to break 543 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 3: a gloss stick and tell him Happy Easter. I was 544 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 3: dumb enough to do some stuff. And the problem with 545 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 3: some of us is that we've gotten smarter than a donkey. 546 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 3: But when Jesus was looking for something to come into 547 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 3: town on, he did not look for a scholar. He 548 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 3: did not look for the head of the class. He 549 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 3: did not look for a valedictorian to be his thissel. 550 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 2: He said, I need a donkey. 551 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 3: I wonder who I can trust enough to take my 552 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 3: word without detail, to take my word without explanation, to 553 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 3: take my word without the cross reference, and do what I. 554 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 2: Need you to do. Now. 555 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 3: The Bible says in verse five of Mark chapter eleven, 556 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 3: there's some people standing there, what are you doing? 557 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 2: Just like the title of our sermon, what are you doing? 558 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 3: Just like they were wondering about Jesus, and they're wondering 559 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 3: what Jesus is doing. Jesus, are you really gonna let 560 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 3: them kill you like this? Jesus, are you really gonna 561 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 3: ride up into Jerusalem in a jalopy? I mean, Jesus, 562 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 3: you're a king. Don't you hear them calling you a king? 563 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 3: A king can't drive a kiah, Jesus, at least let 564 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 3: us put in a good word with somebody who has 565 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 3: a train. You know they got luxury donkeys. You know 566 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 3: they got big grown donkeys. Did you say you want 567 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 3: a baby donkey? A little donkey? Can we at least 568 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 3: get a big donkey Jesus? And Jesus said, no, I 569 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 3: need to be big. So I need what I ride 570 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 3: on to be small so. 571 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 2: They can see how big I am. Oh God. 572 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 3: And so what God will do if you have the 573 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 3: faith to trust him with stuff that you don't understand, 574 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 3: is that he will pick something that you never would 575 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 3: have chosen, and he will ride into situations that you 576 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 3: never would have gone into. 577 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 2: Who is this message for today? 578 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 3: The King is coming, but he's not coming in a 579 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 3: chariot The King is coming, but he's not coming with 580 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 3: a banner. The King is coming, but he's not gonna 581 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 3: do what you wanted him to do. He's gonna do 582 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 3: it on a donkey. 583 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 2: But if you got enough faith to untie that donkey, if. 584 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 3: You got enough faith to obey what. 585 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 2: He show you, here's the word of the Lord. 586 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 3: God said, Obey it now and I'll explain it later. 587 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 3: Obey it now and I'll explain it later. 588 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 2: So I know this doesn't make sense. 589 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 3: I know it looks like a mess, but it's a 590 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 3: good kind of messy. 591 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 2: I know you don't understand why I would ride into 592 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 2: town on a donkey. 593 00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 3: I imagine the disciples untie in the cold, and somebody says, 594 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 3: what are you doing untieing that cold? There's somebody in 595 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 3: a situation right now, and maybe even the voices in 596 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 3: your head are saying, what are you doing forgiving them? 597 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,520 Speaker 3: What are you doing moving on for that? What are 598 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 3: you doing in church today? What are you doing trying 599 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 3: this again? What are you doing going back into recovery? 600 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 3: What are you doing studying the Bible? What are you 601 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,880 Speaker 3: doing praying and worshiping God? What are you doing being 602 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 3: nice to them? After they were nasty to you. What 603 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 3: are you doing getting back up again after you fell 604 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 3: out seven times? What are you doing watching another business? 605 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 3: What are you doing taking another step? What are you 606 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 3: doing calling that family member and saying let's try again. 607 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 2: What are you doing taking your next step? What are 608 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 2: you doing stumbling into tomorrow? What are you doing? Still 609 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 2: trusting God? 610 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 3: Hands lifted hard, praising him, not with hands to say 611 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:41,960 Speaker 3: save now, but hands to. 612 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 2: Say I trusted God enough to pay you now and 613 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 2: you can explain it. 614 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 3: Later. Oh, the Lord said to tell you the donkey 615 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 3: was found, but it wasn't free yet. So hot fot 616 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 3: somebody in say, you're about to be set free because 617 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 3: that donkey. 618 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 2: Oh, I gotta preach about the donkey. 619 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 3: I gotta preach about the donkey to somebody who. 620 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 2: Feels useless, to somebody who feels. 621 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:20,240 Speaker 3: Common, to somebody who feels like your life is in mine. 622 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 3: Can we think about the fact that for five hundred 623 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 3: years it has been prophesied that Jesus would ride into 624 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:39,320 Speaker 3: town on a donkey, So that means for fifty decades, 625 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:45,320 Speaker 3: five hundred years, God has been getting this donkey's DNA 626 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 3: ready for Jesus. 627 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 2: To sit on it. Because look what Jesus said. I 628 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:51,840 Speaker 2: don't know if his verse three mark chapter eleven or 629 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 2: verse four, but we're gonna find it on the screen 630 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 2: today because. 631 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 3: I gotta show you this. I gotta show you this. 632 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 3: Tell somebody you gotta see. This is actually verse two. 633 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,240 Speaker 3: Go to the village ahead of you. Side note is 634 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,080 Speaker 3: not behind you. God is moving you forward in this season. 635 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,880 Speaker 3: It's not behind you. It's not behind you. It's not 636 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 3: gonna be anybody who left you that God uses to 637 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:15,680 Speaker 3: bless you. 638 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:16,839 Speaker 2: It's ahead of you. 639 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 3: It's not gonna be anybody that walked away, see, because there's. 640 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 2: Somebody in there. 641 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,280 Speaker 3: I'm preaching to you, and somebody just left your life recently, 642 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 3: and you thought, God, what are you doing removing them? 643 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,800 Speaker 3: And God said, I'm making. 644 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 2: Room for me to move. 645 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,960 Speaker 3: So I had to get that out of the way, 646 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 3: because what I'm gonna bless you of God, what I'm 647 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 3: gonna bless you with is always ahead of you. Go 648 00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,640 Speaker 3: to the village ahead of you, and just as you 649 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 3: enter it, it's not gonna take long. When you get 650 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 3: to where I send you, you will find a cult, 651 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 3: a donkey, a baby donkey there which no one has 652 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 3: ever ridden untie it, set it free, and bring it here. 653 00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,959 Speaker 2: Now there's an important detail. No one has ever ridden. 654 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 3: So that means this donkey, this colt, this baby donkey, 655 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 3: this unclean animal, this thing that the King wanted to 656 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:14,279 Speaker 3: ride in on, and reserved it. He made sure that 657 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,520 Speaker 3: no one ever sat on this donkey, so that he 658 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,560 Speaker 3: could be the first one to sit on this donkey. 659 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:25,200 Speaker 3: God said, it wasn't rejection, it was preparation. It wasn't rejection, 660 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:29,640 Speaker 3: it was reservation. God was saving you for this moment 661 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,600 Speaker 3: because there's something he wants to do in your life. 662 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,280 Speaker 3: And God said, I want a donkey that is inexperienced. 663 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 2: Isn't it crazy. 664 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,480 Speaker 3: If we would have been submitting our resume to bring 665 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,719 Speaker 3: the King into Jerusalem, we would have listed our experience, 666 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 3: but our very experience that we would have listed would 667 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,880 Speaker 3: have disqualified us for the job, because God said, I 668 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,800 Speaker 3: want a donkey that stumbles into Jerusalem. 669 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 2: I want a donkey that's awkward to ride on. I 670 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 2: want a donkey that no one is set on because 671 00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:58,680 Speaker 2: I'm doing a new thing. 672 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 3: Happy Palm Sunday, everybody, Because while the disciples are walking 673 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:23,080 Speaker 3: and the crowds are waving and the donkey is waving. Oh, 674 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,480 Speaker 3: I figured, if we can't be good disciples, at least 675 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:31,360 Speaker 3: let us be good donkeys. At least let us invite 676 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:32,719 Speaker 3: the presence of God. 677 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:36,160 Speaker 2: Into our situation. Even if we're awkward, at least let 678 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:37,160 Speaker 2: us stumble forward. 679 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:43,680 Speaker 3: Because the disciples are walking, the crowds are waving, the 680 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:48,360 Speaker 3: donkey is waiting, and all that time, the king. 681 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 2: The King is weaving. My life is but a weaving 682 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,160 Speaker 2: between my God and me. 683 00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,160 Speaker 3: I can't talk to anybody else about this right now, 684 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:09,120 Speaker 3: but it's between my God and me. Nobody else is 685 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,120 Speaker 3: really seeing the mess on the underside of my family 686 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:17,360 Speaker 3: right now. But it's a weaving between my God and me. 687 00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:21,640 Speaker 3: I cannot choose the colors. He weave it steadily. Oft 688 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,320 Speaker 3: times he weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride. 689 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:29,440 Speaker 2: Forget he sees the upper and I. 690 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:35,040 Speaker 3: The undersigh. The Lord told me to tell you, keep walking. 691 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:44,200 Speaker 2: He's weaving. Keep walking. He's weaving. He's weaving. See because 692 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:45,120 Speaker 2: at some point. 693 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:48,640 Speaker 3: The Bible says that after Jesus was glorified, this is 694 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:52,120 Speaker 3: his death, this is his burial, this is his resurrection, 695 00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:56,120 Speaker 3: this is his ascension. The Bible says that the disciples 696 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,160 Speaker 3: did what Jesus told them to do, even though they 697 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:00,160 Speaker 3: didn't understand. 698 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:00,839 Speaker 2: Will you. 699 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,879 Speaker 3: While you're asking God, what are you doing? Maybe he's 700 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,719 Speaker 3: asking you the same what are you doing? Because there 701 00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,040 Speaker 3: are some things in this season of your life where 702 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,520 Speaker 3: he's called you to trust him, and he's called you 703 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,280 Speaker 3: to have integrity, and he's called you to be kind, 704 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,000 Speaker 3: and he's called you to be patient, and he's called 705 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,120 Speaker 3: you to be giving, and he's called you to be 706 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,759 Speaker 3: a servant, and he's called you to prayer, and he's 707 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,239 Speaker 3: called you to worship, and he's called you to pray. 708 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:32,120 Speaker 2: So can you and will you do what he gave 709 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:32,839 Speaker 2: you to do? 710 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:39,080 Speaker 3: As they are untying the donkey, the king, Jesus is weaving. 711 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:44,160 Speaker 2: See he's weaving. They're walking, crowds are waving. A donkey 712 00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,080 Speaker 2: is waiting, and Jesus is weaving. 713 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,000 Speaker 3: He's reaching back five hundred years, all the way to 714 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:52,520 Speaker 3: Zechariah's prophecy. 715 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:54,920 Speaker 2: And he says, I can't have a pretty horse. 716 00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,320 Speaker 3: Zechariah didn't say a pretty horse, he said a donkey. 717 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,000 Speaker 3: I gotta sit on a donkey because the word said 718 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,840 Speaker 3: a donkey, and I got to fulfill the word God 719 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:05,680 Speaker 3: knows the word he spoke over your life. 720 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,359 Speaker 2: God knows the word that was in. 721 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,319 Speaker 3: Your spirit before your body came out of your mother's womb. 722 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,520 Speaker 2: God knows what he has for you. God knows the 723 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:19,239 Speaker 2: plans he has for you. And he's weaving. He's weaving 724 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:24,879 Speaker 2: some things together. It was only after he got up. 725 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,839 Speaker 3: From the grave that they realized what he did on 726 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:29,480 Speaker 3: the cross. 727 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:40,279 Speaker 2: They realized he was cross stitching. I said. They realized 728 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:42,880 Speaker 2: that he was cross stitching. 729 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:49,160 Speaker 3: They realized that every drop of blood he said was 730 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:50,040 Speaker 3: on purpose. 731 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,399 Speaker 2: It was not spilled, it was poured out. 732 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,040 Speaker 3: And God says, nothing will be wasted in the hands 733 00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:01,200 Speaker 3: of the weaverer, not once here, not one broken heart, 734 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:14,360 Speaker 3: not one lonely night. Because while the disciples were walking, 735 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,799 Speaker 3: and while the crowds were waving and the donkey. 736 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:21,000 Speaker 2: Was waiting, there was a king who was weaving. 737 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,000 Speaker 3: And I don't know when they had their moment, but 738 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:33,120 Speaker 3: at some point Peter looked at John and said, oh, oh, 739 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,840 Speaker 3: the donkey, the donkey. 740 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,520 Speaker 2: And John's like, what are you on about, Peter. 741 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,239 Speaker 3: The donkey, Yeah, the donkey, the one that Jesus didn't 742 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:44,920 Speaker 3: tell you to go get because he knew you were 743 00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:46,960 Speaker 3: too quiet to say what he needed to say, and 744 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,360 Speaker 3: John's like, shut up, Peter, well what about the donkey? 745 00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,719 Speaker 2: And Peter, I don't know what he was thinking about 746 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:52,640 Speaker 2: that night, but he just. 747 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:57,279 Speaker 3: Goes Cecariah, Cechariah, Cecariah nine to nine. I mean, there weren' 748 00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,319 Speaker 3: actually technically chapters and verses in the Bible at this 749 00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,080 Speaker 3: point in time ago. For the sake of an illustration, 750 00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,960 Speaker 3: he goes Zechariah nine to nine. It was an old testament, 751 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:08,080 Speaker 3: rejoice greatly, daughter's iyon, shout daughter Jerusalem, see your king 752 00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,440 Speaker 3: comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on 753 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,240 Speaker 3: a donkey, on a colt, the full of a donkey. 754 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,759 Speaker 3: I thought it was crazy when he sent us to 755 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:18,960 Speaker 3: get the donkey. I thought it was weird when he 756 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,800 Speaker 3: sent us to get the donkey. I thought it was 757 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,279 Speaker 3: crazy when he let me go through a divorce and 758 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,680 Speaker 3: he didn't stop it. I thought it was crazy. When 759 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,120 Speaker 3: the doctor said you have this disease and you're gonna 760 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,800 Speaker 3: have to go through treatment. I thought that it was crazy, 761 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,399 Speaker 3: and I asked, God, what are you doing? But now 762 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,520 Speaker 3: I realized that there was a purpose that he was 763 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,319 Speaker 3: fulfilling that I could not see at the time, and 764 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:48,759 Speaker 3: I'm telling you to trust him in the lows so 765 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:53,719 Speaker 3: you can get to the Oh. And I came to 766 00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:59,680 Speaker 3: encourage somebody. Keep walking. Tell your neighbor keep walking. He's weaving. 767 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,000 Speaker 3: He's weaving. That's what you got to believe in every 768 00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:04,280 Speaker 3: season of your life. 769 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,240 Speaker 2: He's weaving. He's weaving. 770 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,880 Speaker 3: And as you're going through things that you don't understand, 771 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,440 Speaker 3: give me John chapter twelve, verse sixteen, and I'll close 772 00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:15,320 Speaker 3: with this. The Bible says, at first they did not understand. 773 00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:23,120 Speaker 3: Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these 774 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:27,120 Speaker 3: things had been written about him and these things had. 775 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,280 Speaker 2: Been done to him. And only did they. 776 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:34,240 Speaker 3: See after he was glorified that while they were walking, 777 00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:40,240 Speaker 3: he was weaving. I want you to know he's weaving. 778 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,919 Speaker 3: The good things and the bad things. All things work 779 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,279 Speaker 3: together for the good of those who love the Lord 780 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,280 Speaker 3: and are called according to his purpose. The King is weaving, 781 00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,800 Speaker 3: the disciples are walking, the crowds are waving, the donkey 782 00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:54,280 Speaker 3: is waiting. 783 00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:58,000 Speaker 2: But Jesus, King, Jesus is weaving. 784 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,120 Speaker 3: And you got to believe that seasons of your life, 785 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:02,880 Speaker 3: when people leave you, and you got to believe in 786 00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,560 Speaker 3: seasons of your life. When people come, he's weaving. They 787 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,520 Speaker 3: all left Jesus at the cross. He never stopped weaving. 788 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,440 Speaker 3: Don't let who leaves you stop you from believing in 789 00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,000 Speaker 3: the one who is weaving and knitting. 790 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:16,360 Speaker 2: He's a cross stitcher. 791 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,640 Speaker 3: And with every step of faith you take, that's another 792 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:26,319 Speaker 3: stitch he's weaving. He's weaving some things, your gifts and 793 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:31,439 Speaker 3: your weaknesses. He's weaving. You're past and you're present. He's 794 00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:35,360 Speaker 3: weaving the good days and the bad days. He's weaving 795 00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,120 Speaker 3: the places you're strong and the places you're not. 796 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,840 Speaker 2: He's weaving. The King is weaving. 797 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,239 Speaker 3: And so when you see your king come in on 798 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,680 Speaker 3: a cult, don't be surprised. He likes to show up 799 00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,440 Speaker 3: in situations that look small. 800 00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,920 Speaker 2: He likes to show up in vehicles that seem weak. 801 00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,800 Speaker 2: And when he weaves his strength with your. 802 00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:07,080 Speaker 3: Weakness, somebody shout, the King is coming. Come on, touch 803 00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:08,240 Speaker 3: seven people tell him. 804 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:08,920 Speaker 2: The King is coming. 805 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,759 Speaker 3: Everybody get up on your feet and shout, say the 806 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:13,720 Speaker 3: King is coming. 807 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,640 Speaker 2: The King is coming. I'll have to be afraid. 808 00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,600 Speaker 3: I'll have to turn around, I'll. 809 00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:26,400 Speaker 2: Have to give up. I'll have to give that the 810 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,000 Speaker 2: King is coming. Turn my mind up. 811 00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:34,760 Speaker 4: The King is coming, The King is coming, Sunday's. 812 00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:38,160 Speaker 3: Coming, Glory is coming, Sectory is coming back. 813 00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:46,600 Speaker 2: Through is coming. He let us coming. He's weaving, he's weaving. 814 00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:51,280 Speaker 2: Keep walking, he's weaving. Keep praying. He's weaving. He knows 815 00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:56,160 Speaker 2: what he's doing. God is a cross stitcher. You may 816 00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,719 Speaker 2: not understand it right now, but. 817 00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:02,359 Speaker 3: After Jesus is glorifi, you will understand. 818 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:06,440 Speaker 2: Oh. He took me through that to show me who 819 00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:10,040 Speaker 2: he was. Oh. He took me through that so that 820 00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:12,360 Speaker 2: he could be for me what I could not be 821 00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,760 Speaker 2: for myself. Oh. 822 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:19,400 Speaker 3: It was good for me that I was afflicted, because 823 00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,600 Speaker 3: the times for me that were the most confusing were 824 00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,120 Speaker 3: the times he used the most What are you doing? 825 00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:27,759 Speaker 2: God? What are you doing? I'll tell you what I'm doing. 826 00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:32,239 Speaker 2: I'm weaving. I'm weaving. I'm weaving. I'm weaving. I got 827 00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:36,200 Speaker 2: good hands. Bring me my blanket. I close with this. 828 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:40,279 Speaker 3: I was walking out to preach to you, and I 829 00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,279 Speaker 3: saw this on my couch, and I thought maybe this 830 00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:44,800 Speaker 3: could help me get my point across. 831 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:48,480 Speaker 2: Because when I. 832 00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:53,600 Speaker 3: Say he's weaving, and when I say that you have 833 00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:57,719 Speaker 3: to trust him with the underside. You could look at 834 00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:02,239 Speaker 3: this and faintly making eye line of what it was 835 00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:07,399 Speaker 3: John chapter twelve, verse sixteen. They did not understand all 836 00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:12,040 Speaker 3: of this at first. They did not understand. 837 00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:13,759 Speaker 2: All of this at first. 838 00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:16,840 Speaker 3: My life is but a weaving between my God and me. 839 00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,719 Speaker 3: They did not understand while they were walking. They did 840 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,120 Speaker 3: not understand while the crowds were waving. They did not 841 00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:27,640 Speaker 3: even understand while the donkey was waiting. But on the 842 00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:32,520 Speaker 3: other side, I. 843 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:40,719 Speaker 2: Saw it was his hands. It was his hands. It 844 00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:41,440 Speaker 2: was his hands. 845 00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:50,839 Speaker 3: You see how when you're on the underside it's kind 846 00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,640 Speaker 3: of ugly. You're like, I think this is God, but 847 00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:54,279 Speaker 3: I'm not sure. 848 00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,600 Speaker 2: I don't know if this is God's been feeling a 849 00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,840 Speaker 2: fair right now. Right, but when it's. 850 00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:06,879 Speaker 3: Sorry, I'll practice my illustration for next week, for Easter, 851 00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:12,080 Speaker 3: when the guests come. When it's his hands, And then 852 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:13,439 Speaker 3: and then I wanted to tell you. 853 00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:20,480 Speaker 2: To trust on this side what you can only trace. 854 00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:29,840 Speaker 2: On this side, he's weaving. 855 00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:37,760 Speaker 3: Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize these things 856 00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:40,239 Speaker 3: had been written about him, and that these things had 857 00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:42,919 Speaker 3: been done to him, and that these things God used, 858 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,480 Speaker 3: and these things and these things and good things and 859 00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:50,240 Speaker 3: bad things and high things and low things and pretty 860 00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,160 Speaker 3: things and painful things. 861 00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,440 Speaker 2: He's weaving. He's weaving. 862 00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,280 Speaker 5: Father, I bless you for your word today has spoke 863 00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:01,400 Speaker 5: to me so much as I remember the times in 864 00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,239 Speaker 5: my life that I've looked back and seen that you 865 00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,600 Speaker 5: were weaving while I was walking, that you were weaving 866 00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:07,520 Speaker 5: while I was waiting. 867 00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:10,279 Speaker 2: I praise you today, Lord, because. 868 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,240 Speaker 3: You brought somebody here to be reminded of the skillful 869 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:18,040 Speaker 3: touch of your hand, the weaver's hand. I thank you 870 00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:21,759 Speaker 3: that today, Lord, as we stare into Easter Sunday and 871 00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,960 Speaker 3: anticipate your resurrection, that you have given us the faith 872 00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:31,120 Speaker 3: to face Friday knowing that the weaver will never leave 873 00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,720 Speaker 3: our side. Father, you know who you're speaking to today. 874 00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:38,840 Speaker 3: You know their name, you know their need. You know 875 00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,240 Speaker 3: the need beneath the need, beneath the need that presents 876 00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:42,360 Speaker 3: itself as the problem. 877 00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,600 Speaker 2: And you are the weaver. God. 878 00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:46,640 Speaker 3: I thank you that all things do work together for 879 00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:48,800 Speaker 3: good for those who you love and are called according 880 00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:53,040 Speaker 3: to your purpose. And may we be better than the 881 00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,960 Speaker 3: disciples were, because we know what the disciples did it. 882 00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:00,720 Speaker 3: May we walk in the light of our resurre Savior. 883 00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:06,320 Speaker 3: May we worship them, our weaver who works all things together. 884 00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,799 Speaker 2: For good. Thank you for joining us. 885 00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,560 Speaker 6: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 886 00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:17,120 Speaker 6: this ministry. 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