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Come on. Does anybody come eager to praise a worthy God today? Has anybody encountered the real Jesus? The one that can save, that can redeem, that can set free? Come on. All of our locations right now. Would you just lift up your voices? Would you just celebrate the fact that we have a hope to hold on to and that there is a name that is worthy to be praised? Because apart from Jesus, there is no name worthy of our praise and of our worship. Would you help me welcome all of our campuses that are tuning in in a building this weekend? Everybody join us online. And man, can we go crazy for our men and women at our Red Rocks Church correctional facility campuses. I'm believing that God has something so specific for those of you tun in and watching from a prison this weekend. And so I'm just grateful.
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I'm grateful that you're here to join us.
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And if you're in this room, if you're in one of our campuses,
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I'm
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just so reminded about the weight of these moments. I can't tell you how many times my life has been changed in a moment of worship.
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An encounter with Jesus when nothing was the same after it.
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I don't know about you, I don't know if you've had one of these moments, but you know that there's significance to the words that we declare. There's significance to the praise that we bring. And I just wonder this weekend where your expectation is at. See, I think sometimes our expectation can be the single most limiting factor in the encounter and the experience that we
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have with a God that loves us.
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I wonder if the weight of your words are a little elevated above your level of expectation and so your warning, wondering if God would show up to meet you. Anybody willing to get your expectations up a little bit this weekend?
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Come on.
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Can we elevate our expectation? Can we just be ready for a move of God and then can we worship him with full hearts? We're going to look at one worship song that's written down in Psalm 118 this weekend.
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Start in verse 24, says, this is the day that the Lord has made.
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Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Save us we pray, O Lord, O Lord, we pray, Give us success. Blessed is he who comes in the
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name of the Lord. We bless you from the house of the Lord this weekend I want to take a look at the declaration of
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our heart and see if our expectation
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of Jesus is actually aligned with that.
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If you're taking notes, the title of my talk this weekend is this is the Day. This Is the day. Come on. Can we celebrate as if this is the day that the Lord has made? Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
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Jesus, I just thank you for a
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moment in your presence. God, we thank you, thank you for
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your house this weekend. God, would you be so honored? Would you help our expectation of you match up to the worthiness that is in your name? We love you. Would you. Would you change our hearts, God? Would you meet with people that are far from you? It's in your name. Amen. Amen. Why don't you grab a seat?
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As you do, look at your neighbor and shout at them and say, neighbor, this is the day.
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And look back and say, why are you shouting at me? I'm just trying to enjoy some church
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if I don't know you.
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My name is Conrad. I have the privilege of serving on our leadership team here at Red Rocks.
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And I'm coming up on my official 10 year workiversary. Unbelievable. By my math, I'm coming up on 11.
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They didn't count the internship, which feels like a bit of a slight. But, man, can I tell you, this has been my church home. It'll be 17 years this fall. This has been my church home. Yeah. Thank you.
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People like us, we stick around. But if you're walking in for the
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first time this weekend, could I just
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tell you that my whole entire life
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is different because I chose to get plugged into a local church. And so if you're coming and you're
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not really sure, can I just remind you that, man, everybody had their first
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time walking into church at one point.
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And so you're not alone and you're in the right place this weekend. And we honor you, we celebrate you. We're just so glad that you're here.
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I believe that God has something to share with you. And I'm hoping, man, that you just would have a receptiveness to his spirit this weekend.
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And if some of you know, maybe you grew up in a church tradition, you know that we are kicking off Holy Week this week. No cheers for Holy Week. If you don't know what Holy Week means, it is the week leading up to the single most significant event the world has ever seen. Okay, Is that something we can celebrate? The resurrection of Jesus? Arvada went crazy for Holy Week.
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I'm believing it.
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But this weekend is Palm Sunday. And this would mark the moment that Jesus enters into Jerusalem. And this week is kind of celebrated on the church calendar as everything leading up from the moment Jesus entered Jerusalem
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for the last time to his betrayal,
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arrest, murder, and eventually his resurrection. That's what we celebrate on Easter weekend. And can I just tell you, can I implore you to show up next
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weekend and to bring somebody?
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Man, Friday evening. This place is gonna be special. Every single one of our campuses, there's gonna be live teaching there.
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We're gonna have a moment in God's presence.
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It's gonna be unlike any service that we do all year. And you don't wanna miss it because it sets the table for the party that we're gonna throw on the weekend. And I'm so excited, man. Our pastor has labored, and I'm telling you, spoiler. Jesus rises again this Easter. Okay? However, however, however, I'm so eager to
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hear what our pastor brings. And I know more importantly than maybe the people in this room, there's people that are not in this room that need to come and encounter Jesus next weekend. And we are gonna be the ones that make a way and open the door to them. Amen.
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Amen. We're gonna be turning to Luke chapter 19 here in just a minute.
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And so if you're one of the
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seven people that brought your Bible to church this weekend, go ahead and flip there.
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Matthew, Mark, Luke.
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But I wonder, as you go there, if anybody has ever had a moment that you're like, a part of something, but you don't fully realize what you are engaging. You don't really fully understand what the moment is. Okay, so last year, almost exactly a year ago, I was in London with our amazing interns.
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Shout out interns, Internet.
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And if you're like, whoa, hold up.
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Yeah.
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Our interns, they raise support.
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They come and serve here for nine months unpaid, building every single ministry in
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our church, serving faithfully at every single thing. We host late nights, early mornings, fundraising throughout. And at the end, we reward them
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and we celebrate them for their faithfulness by thanking them. And we go on a trip, okay? To wherever.
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Last year it was London. We're like, what would. So maybe, hey, quick plug. Maybe you did not feel called to ministry or to the Red Rocks Church internship, and you're a young adult, but you feel called to a trip, go ahead and apply. You never know what God could do with that. But we're in London and we're like, what would be something fun to do? We're like, we know we'll go see a football match in London. Like, what else is there? And so we are looking for tickets. Turns out very tough to get a whole lot of tickets at a reasonable
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price point to watch Arsenal play.
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Never knew. If you don't know, they are one
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of the top dogs in.
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In all of the game of soccer.
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Okay?
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That we have. But our friend in the UK gives us a hack. He goes, no, here's what you do. You go sit in the visitor section and you can get tickets together. It's a lot cheaper. And honestly, it's more fun. We're like, perfect, I'll pack my Arsenal gear and we'll go. And he goes, oh, no, you will not be cheering for the home team. Like, explain. And he's like, oh, yeah.
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There's separate entrances.
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The fans do not intermix. They take this very seriously. And so we're like, great. We are now the biggest Crystal palace fans from Littleton, Colorado, that the world will ever see. And so we're telling them, like, guys, this is for real. We're not playing around. We are palace till we die. And so we send them the link to watch the chants and learn the
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songs as we're going to the game.
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Like, it'll be more fun if you do. So we get there and we show up and they got all the cool songs and we're making them sing. We're like, oh, this is like a rowdy bunch. And you can quickly tell why they
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keep the fans separated. Some of the things some of our interns should have never witnessed or heard. And I wrote their parents an apology letter.
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So we're like, we're in it. Okay? We're in it. We're shouting. Since I was a young boy, my father said to me, listen here, son. We're cpfc. That's what us diehards call Crystal Palace Football Club, cpfc. We should have been cheering. Like, on the train ride over, we watched a YouTube clip.
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Now we're here with strangers pretending to root for you.
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We didn't know. But we also didn't know that we would stand out. So evidently we thought, we're in it. The guy's like, so which part of
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America are you from? Like, ah, kind of just all of the parts, sir.
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And so we didn't know that in the 115 years, or maybe 120, but Crystal palace has entered into this tournament
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called the FA Cup, 115 times.
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Never won it. So we just happened to jump on the bandwagon at the right time. They're winning trophies. We're celebrating. We're loving it. Campus pastor from Littleton, Andrew Zajic, he goes to London. We're like, bro, you gotta go see our team play Crystal Palace. You won't regret it he has the time of his life, he's buying us hats, we're all in. We didn't even know. We didn't know. We joined him at the top. They've played 45 games since then.
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They've won 18, tied 11 and lost 16.
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They're literally the most mediocre football club. They're in 14th out of 20 teams. All the players that we learned the
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songs for, they're trading, just dumping them,
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trying to make some money. Didn't know the moment that we were in. In Luke chapter 19,
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we see a glimpse of a moment that a lot
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of people are gathered.
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The energy, the atmosphere, the intensity all points to the arrival of Jesus.
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But we quickly see that so many
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of them do not know what they're actually standing in. This moment is now referred to Palm Sunday. And your text might be called the Triumphal or the triumphant entry. Jesus had done his ministry. He had been healing people, setting them
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free, raising the dead. He had been opening blind eyes. He had been doing miracle after miracle.
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And this is the day.
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This is the day.
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This is the moment that Jesus heads toward Jerusalem and he's walking in and the crowd is assembled there and the expectation is at an all time high. But it's misaligned where they're not fully grasping what they're watching. You see, until this point, Jesus had been hesitant.
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He had not revealed his full nature. If you read through Matthew, Mark, Luke
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and John, the gospels that tell the
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story, story of Jesus, you see that
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he would come perform a miracle and
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he would say, be sure that you
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tell no one, keeping a low profile. But this is the moment that he makes himself known. Luke chapter 19, verse 28 says this. And when he had said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples saying, go into the village in front of you, where
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on entering you will find a colt
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tied on which no one has ever yet sat.
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Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, why are you untying it? You shall say this.
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The Lord has need of it.
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I love that. It's like burrow.
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Toro. You know what I. That was funny. That was funny. You're still catching it. Let him catch up.
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Burrow.
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It just came to me too.
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So those who were sent away found it. And just as he had told, just as he had told them, and as they were untying the colt, its owners said, why are you untying the colt.
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And they said, the Lord has need of it. And they brought it to Jesus. And throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus. And as he rode along, they spread their cloaks on the road.
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In this moment in time, Rome is
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the ruling authority of the Jewish people.
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The Roman Empire was expanding rapidly.
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They were raining forcibly and harshly.
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There was a lot of intensity around
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the moment they were taking control. There was a lot of rulers and governors that the Roman people had assigned.
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And there was a time of heavy
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taxation on the Jewish people.
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Not only that, but it was a time that caused for a lot of division. If you read in the Bible, it talks about how Jesus met with tax collectors and sinners. These very neighbors of people were actually working for the Romans and basically robbing them. And so tensions were at an all time high politically and division was rampant
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among the people in Jerusalem. And this marked an atmosphere of pressure, injustice and fear.
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So when Jesus rides into the city, there's an expectation that this moment, that this is the day of a revolution. A new king is entering Jerusalem to overthrow Rome. Picture this in all the other gospels. It tells the same story.
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So we know it's significant.
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We know it's important. We know that everybody's pointing to this moment. The other versions of the story, the tellings of it, they talk about how people are waving palm branches. What that would have represented was freedom, liberation. That would have been a sign of national identity for the Jewish people.
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Their pride would have talked about deliverance
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from their enemies and historically would have
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been used to celebrate that the victorious king has saved us.
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And the clothes that they put on the ground, they put their clothing down so that no king's feet should touch the dirt. And so they showed this sign of submission, honoring the authority of the king that was coming, submitted to a ruler
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that was worthy of kingship. And this is the day that Jesus is clearly presenting himself as a king.
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Only instead of riding in on a war horse, signaling that he came for
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conquest and for battle, Scripture tells us that he comes humbly and riding on a donkey, which would mean that Jesus came in peace generations earlier. Zechariah chapter nine would say that, see, your king comes to you gentle and riding on a donkey, prophesying, predicting that this moment would take place. Jesus had entered Jerusalem before, but this is the day. This is the day that Psalm 118 is talking about. This is the moment that Jesus has come.
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And town was buzzing, like everybody is there because they're celebrating the Passover, the Passover was celebrated to signify the liberation from the Egyptians. The people of Israel were enslaved for over 400 years to the Egyptian people. And Passover was the moment that they
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celebrated how God had saved them and spared them. And Moses takes them on the Exodus parts of the Red Sea, and they move into freedom. Luke, chapter 19, verse 37. So this is the day. This is the moment.
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As he was drawing near, already on
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the way down the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen, saying, blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord.
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Peace in heaven and glory in the highest.
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And some of the Pharisees in the
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crowd said to him, teacher, rebuke your disciples. He answered, I tell you, if these
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were silent, the very stones would cry out.
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He enters in and what are they singing? They're singing Psalm 118, what we opened up with this weekend. This is the day. Let us rejoice and be God. This song would have been sung at the liberation at Passover, year over year, pointing to this day and this moment. Freedom from Egypt. And the people expect that now we
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must also be free from Rome. And you might have heard it said,
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they shout, hosanna, save us now.
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Lines up with the verse in Psalm 118 that said, Save us, save us. There's an urgency to these people, and
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I wonder what it was urgent for their circumstance, the oppression that they felt, the evil that was in their midst day after day. And when we read these retellings of
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historical events that happened, it's important that we find ourselves in the moment. And as I was studying this week, I just couldn't help but wonder what your urgency is right now.
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Like, what do you line up for? And jesus, save me now. Like, where is your desperation? Where's your cry? God help. God save. God heal. God fix it. God change it. God, deliver me. God, do something different kind of desperation,
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you know, the good news this weekend is that we have a God that hears and a God that cares. What's urgent to you is also on his mind, and it's on his heart. And he responds to you, and he wants to show up in your season and in your story. So if you have urgency in your season right now, could I just encourage somebody that God's listening? You can cry out, hosanna, God, save me now. Help me now. You gotta do something.
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You gotta show up here.
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I'm desperate for you. It tells us that the whole multitude began to Rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen.
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Have you seen mighty works? Come on. Can we just get a little rowdy now that I've lulled you to sleep? And celebrate the mighty works? Come on. When God gave you a second chance that you did not deserve, God lifted your head when you were downcast. God walked with you through a season of brokenness and hurting God. God shared time with you when you were lonely and feeling abandoned. The mighty works of they came rejoicing. This is the day, this is the
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day on full display. They celebrate his mighty works. And the Pharisees, the religious leaders, they get upset. They say, jesus, you must make them stop. And he said, they can stop, but if they stop, the very rocks will also cry out.
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He said that creation was designed to testify to me and me alone. If they had nothing to say, creation
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would speak for them.
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How good is that? To know that everything about our human experience is really just pointing to the goodness in the hand, in the power of the almighty God? Have you seen his mighty works in your life?
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And as we Read on, verse 41 says, When he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it.
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I'm sorry. Like Jesus, it's your party. You can cry if you want to. But did you not see that? That was awesome. Everybody was shouting your praise. Everybody was declaring your goodness. Everybody. Was it the key? Was it Peter? He's been skipping voice class. We'll get him straight. But that was awesome. They saw you, they called you king. Have you ever sung a song and
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not really known the words to it or, like, what it means? I'm kind of worried and you know, in Gen Z and they got all these new words and I don't know what any of the songs mean. I don't even think Chat can catch up and help us out yet. It's still learning.
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Do you know Ring around the Rosie?
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Okay, the other day, the other day, other month, whatever. Our daughter is in her Elsa dress, as she wears most days.
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Little birthday celebration, bouncing in the bounce house. I hear them spinning and singing. Ring around the rosy.
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Pocket full of posies. Ashes, ashes, they all fall down.
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You know that that song is believed to be about the Black Death, okay? The bubonic plague. My three year old is spinning in her sundress singing. And Chat wouldn't confirm this either, but I'm like, yeah, but if enough people have said that, this is why, like, let's just put our heads together and make a new song that people can Fall down to the ring is like the rash. The posies are the flowers that mask the stench of death and fight off germs. Ashes, ashes, I don't know. Burning, destruction, cremation, like, you name it all. Fall down. I was like, like, can we not. Just something different, maybe, you know, she doesn't know what she's singing. How often do we sing the song
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and miss the meaning? When here, hands lifted, there's no one, only you, Jesus. Who else is worthy? But we've missed what that actually means. We've missed the weight of that moment. The expectation of our heart is not at the same level of the words that we cry out and the things that we declare. The heart of Jesus is grieved in this moment. He weeps. He leans in, he looks at his city over his people, and his heart breaks. That word wept means real sad lot of tears. I'm just kidding. It implies that he wailed with a frustrated desire over the missed opportunity. People are lining the roads, hailing him as king. But to Jesus, they had missed it. He had a desire to deliver them, but they had a desire just to have relief. He came to set them free from the things of destruction. And they were so fixated on their momentary circumstance. And so he wept. They celebrated his works, but they missed his intention. How often have I seen the hand of God and I've moved on, thanks, Lord, But I've missed the heart of what he was actually doing, the heart of what he was actually revealing. I've taken his favor and I've enjoyed
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it and I've loved it.
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And praise be to God that He shows up seriously. But have I missed him in the middle of it?
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That verse is actually left out of
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a lot of some of the early manuscripts because they thought a perfect God would not weep. They said a perfect Savior would not have had part in that, and so they left it out. I don't know about you, but I'm just so grateful that we have a God that would be led to compassion for his people finding and encountering and knowing him and coming into relationship with him, that he would stop and he would grieve on our behalf, that his
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heart would break over those that are far from him, those that are missing the point. Anybody grateful that Jesus would just weep? That he would just have such a desire to know you, to love you
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and to care for you. His heart breaks when he is reduced to a measure of our desire and his ability to fulfill it. They want a political freedom. They want a national restoration. They want a Personal benefit, which are all very real and pressing things. So don't hear what I'm not saying. Bring your request to God. Are you kidding me?
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All of them. He can handle it.
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But remember who you're bringing them to, because it actually changes how you pray. You're bolder, you believe for bigger. You encounter God at a deeper and more intimate level. Verse 42 goes on to say this. Would that you even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace, but now they are hidden from your eyes. They knew the song but not the
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significance, he said, would only you know. To Jerusalem, literally, Jerusalem means the city of peace. And he said, you've totally missed it. You have no idea the things that make for peace. They thought, peace is Rome gone, control restored, circumstances fixed.
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But Jesus knew that Rome was not their biggest problem. That sin was the separation from him, was that a relationship detached from him only led to destruction. They're asking for relief, but rejecting reconciliation. And we have to find ourselves in these stories, in these moments, and you're not Jesus. News flash in the story, is this not our story? Come on.
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Is this not me? I just find myself like on that street in that moment. Like the power of seeing the King of kings come in like that.
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And then him being grieved over my response.
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I wonder if we got everything we
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ever wanted, it would lead to peace.
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I mean, we'll never know because that will never happen. But if you got everything on your prayer list checked off, if you got every stressor lifted from your life, removed from your mind, out of your head
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and heart forever, everything was in its perfect place, would you have peace? Because peace will always be fleeting. If Jesus is just helper but never savior, if he's only fixer, we never actually walk in his forgiveness. We think so. Short term, when we're searching for solutions, we have such a short term time horizon on the things that will bring for peace.
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Are you kidding me? I was getting this message that just
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killed me this week, okay, I'm in
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a ball in the corner of my office, just like I'm springing other water, praying and contending. I'm like, as soon as this weekend is over. Oh, thank God. And then I looked at my calendar and I saw next week.
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And I'm like, oh no, I might
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just die on stage. It'd be a good way to go out.
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It doesn't end, does it? We think so. Short term, if the substance of God's kingdom was good works, he could change your human experience, but never your eternity. He could change your human experience, but not your eternity. He could change your difficulties, but not your destiny. He could fix the symptoms of your humanity, but not the salvation of your soul. The City of Peace had misappropriated their identity, and Jesus said, you don't even know where to find it. And I think we do that sometimes, too.
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In First Peter, chapter two, verse nine, can I remind you of what is said of your identity as people following Jesus? Peter writes this. You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness and into his wonderful light. That is good news. That is who you are. You are chosen, you are called, you are appointed, and you are positioned in right standing with Him.
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Peace doesn't come from circumstances or political change or external control. But the problem is that if you've been showing up at church for any length of time, you've been showing up to the small group, you've been hitting the daily devo, Jesus calling,
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you already know the answer to that question. If someone asks you, like, hey, you think this election will lead to ultimate peace?
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And you're like, of course not, bro. That's only Jesus. The peace that passes understanding.
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But how quickly are we robbed when
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it doesn't go our way?
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How quickly are we robbed by the next headline? How quickly are we robbed by the next appointment? How quickly are we robbed by the
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next phone call that comes in?
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All these things are important and they matter to God.
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And. But I'm just telling you that that is not where peace is found. And we know that as Christians. We know that as people trying our best to follow Jesus. But can I just be real? Like, I'm the one on the street.
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I'm the one Jesus save now. Change this right now and everything will be okay.
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And Jesus is saying, actually, I have a higher level to call you to.
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I was at the gym the other
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day trying it out, something new.
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And
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God bless this woman. Super thankful. She, you know, just trying to be in there for like an hour and get a workout in, forget about everything that troubles our hearts.
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Luckily for me, she had the news on her phone, propped up on the
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floor on the machine that she was working on.
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And so I got to tune in
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as I was doing shoulder press to
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a channel that half of you would give her a high five for, the
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other half would slash your tires after church. And so, like, it's even groundier.
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I don't even know what the story was about. I don't even Know what it was on?
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I can only assume.
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But in one clip, press conference. Next clip. Fire. Next clip. I see some things that look like they're blowing up. Next clip. And I just remind, I stopped and I prayed and I said, God, would you heal our land? God, would you save us? To God, would you bring restoration here and now? And that matters.
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That matters to God's heart so much.
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But man, I snap back so quick
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and I'm like, well, when that's done, here comes the next and the next and the next. Peace cannot be found in the momentary relief from a situation. Yet the people on the street said, bless the is the king who comes in the name of the Lord.
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And I'm just wondering this weekend if this is the day that we can get a right view of the king. I'm wondering if this is the day, this is the moment where you could actually define for your heart who the king actually is to you. Because guess what? If something's broken, you don't have to call a king. You can call a mechanic, call a chiropractor, depending on what the issue is. But you call a king when you need someone to rule and to reign over your life and your heart and your story. I wonder if we stand on the corner and we know who the king is that is coming for our season.
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Peace comes from surrender, accepting the forgiveness of Jesus, right relationship with God, that he was entering Jerusalem to be put to death, that we could all experience him for who he is. Rome could leave tomorrow and they still would not have had peace. You could get every answer. You could get the healing which we continue to pray for. You could start that family that you've been desperate to start, which we pray for. You could have your career take off. The business could go well. You could have that moment see God's provision and the mountain could literally be picked up and thrown into the ocean. But an answer at best, at best brings relief for the moment that you're in. And Jesus provides and sustains a peace that actually hovers above all of that and actually can help you see above all of that. And I don't know about you, but I'm just like, I'm desperate to stop having that snatch so quickly from my life.
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I'm just desperate to just walk in confidence that the God of peace actually sustains. It doesn't matter what. I'm sick of waiting on every moment to pass me by that I might experience peace. Because can I tell you that this is the day, this is the day for peace. This is the day that God's peace can reign and rule in your heart, if you would let it in Jesus way walks in and said, if only
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you knew who I really was. And if we, the people that have said yes to Jesus, I know some of you maybe haven't, you're going to get a chance this weekend. But if we wrestle with that, how
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much more do all the people out
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there contend in their heart to find and discover?
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How much more are they out there just flipping over every stone like no stone unturned until they find and discover real peace? Well, good news from them, because Jesus says the very rocks will cry out as they flip them over and declare of his goodness and his promise and his power. But we are the ones. We are the ones whose hearts must
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break for those people.
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And I wanted to do a whole message about invitation this weekend, but I just thought to myself, if only we had a true picture of who Jesus was. If only we could just lift our hearts and our eyes above the noise just enough to see who he really is. Far be it from us to miss an opportunity to share the greatest news, the sustaining news of life that the author and the perfecter of our faith
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in our future wants relationship with us. God, would you stir our hearts? People are dying to know your peace. So we made it so easy. Why don't you take seven seconds and you can hold your phone against this seat in front of you. If you're in one of our buildings, there'll be QR code on the screen, like to where you can actually invite somebody to church.
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We made it so easy that you don't even have to write the text message.
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We did it for you. If you don't like what we say, maybe you need some more, you know, hip lango lango. But it'll populate a text message and you can just send it to someone, say, hey, come to church with me.
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Like, I think I know what you're looking for. Just show up. But I think it's on us to start carrying ourselves to know the sign
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of the times and the moment that
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we're in, to actually shift our hearts
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back to breaking over the people that are far from God. You see, in this moment, they had forgotten part of the song. You ever do that? You're in like a sing along. All of a sudden a sing along breaks out and you're at the thing and you're like,
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watermelon, watermelon. Like, everyone's singing, you're like, am I
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the only one that doesn't know this song?
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You see, they shouted, this is the day.
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But they had forgotten what it said. Just before that, in verse 22, in Psalm 118, it says this. The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
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Jesus is saying, this is the day. I am it. I am the cornerstone. I am the one that is coming. They said, I've become the cornerstone and you've missed it. They had sung the song, but forgotten the most important part. You want to know where peace comes from? It's from making Jesus the cornerstone. The cornerstone is the first and most important stone that is laid in building. If it's off, everything is off. If it's misaligned, everything is misaligned. And I wonder if this weekend, in
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your heart you could say there's some
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things that are misaligned in my life,
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therefore I am missing out on the peace of Christ.
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I wonder if this week and you say, this is the day that I've got to get some things right. Jesus looks out over Jerusalem. He weeps. He challenged them to know the things
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that make for peace. And then he goes on to talk about how the whole thing is going to crumble. Talks about how no stone will be left on top of another because they had missed the cornerstone. The foundation was bad. The problem was where they started. If we can start in the right place with our view of God, if we can start in our right place as we reflect on who the king is, everything else will come back into line. This is the day. He said, I am the cornerstone. He says, peace is actually possible, not circumstantial. Sustained, lasting relief, restoration for your soul, Redemption, right standing. You're gonna have trouble. You kidding me? But Jesus actually knew that if all he was there was to liberate them from Rome within a generation, it would be the next thing. So I just wonder if this is the day, because it'd be a shame
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if we just gather together, we do
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the thing again and again and again, and we sing the song
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and we leave here unaffected by the power of
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the gospel to actually work in our heart, to change us, to be transformed.
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This wasn't like just a fixer upper episode. Jesus was saying, I was come to
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make everything right and restored back to me. He says, you did not know the time of your visitation. That's verse. Yeah, verse 44. If you're still following along in Luke, they have missed the moment. I wonder how many moments I have missed. How many moments I have missed forgetting.
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No, my life is actually founded on the rock. He is the corner someone. How my perspective has changed, shifted over time, away from the very thing that once brought me back to life when I was dead.
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This can be all of our story, and this can actually compel us forward in our life. This is the day. This is the day some of you can't keep waiting. This is the day. This is the day to put Jesus at the center of your business. This is the the day to put him in the middle of your finances. This is the day to put him at the middle of your household. This is the day to put him back as the cornerstone of your life and your conversation. This is the day to continue to contend again in your prayer life for the thing that he has already called you to. But if you're not aligned, the whole thing falls. This is the day. I just wanted to set a moment before the sacrifice on the cross or the miracle of the resurrection and just get a clear picture of who Jesus actually is to you and to me. To remind ourselves of the peace and the power that we walk in. Not because, not because of his mighty works, but because of his nature and his character. If we get a clear picture of the king that is actually coming, the
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King that we honor and that we
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celebrate,
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and maybe for some of us to actually shout hosanna, save me now, because maybe it's your first time stepping into relationship with him, or maybe it's because now you actually trust in the
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power and the redemptive work that he brings. So every head bowed and eye closed, I just want to pray for us and invite us to worship Jesus. Maybe this is the day. God, I just thank you for your church. I thank you for your house. God, I thank you for what you're just building in the lives of each of us at any given moment.
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God, I pray that we would not be the ones that cry out to
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you as king, but have no clue
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what that actually means. I pray that we would be the ones, God, that experience your peace. For what it takes truly is. I pray that our expectation would match
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the declaration of our lips that our
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worship would actually carry the weight that you came carrying.
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If you're in this room and every head bowed and I close and you just haven't made your peace with God, you're saying, God, I need you to save me right now in this seat, at every campus, no one looking around, could you just slide your hand up
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right now and you say, hey, I need this peace. I need something that lasts.
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I need to hold on again. I see you. I see you back there. Come on, put it up right now.
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Right now. This is the day.
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Come on.
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This is the day for salvation. This is the day that God's getting a hold of your life. This is the day you can surrender control. Jesus Christ, 2000 years ago, went up
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on a cross and he paid the
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price for our sins. But he rose again, defeating death, hell in the grave.
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And those of you that raised your hand, you just. You're saying yes to his invitation. A new life. Thank you, Jesus.
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And for others of you, man, if this is the day for you that you're like, hey, I have been misaligned.
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I've missed the cornerstone.
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I am sick and tired of being tossed to and fro from missing the point, from missing you in the middle of it. And you just need Jesus to remind you that he is the king of Jesus.
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Peace.
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That he is the King that he came to save, to redeem and to
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restore, not only to do mighty works, but to set you free for eternity.
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If that's you. And you said, hey, this is the day. I need to get my heart realigned.
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Would you put your hand up? Amen. Amen. Amen. Come on. He's writing something new in you.
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This is the day. God, we just rejoice in this moment. We thank you, Jesus, that you save
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us, that you restore us, and that you redeem us. God, we give you the glory, the praise in your name. Amen. Thank you.