The Sermon We Would See Jesus (Palm Sunday) by David McGee
Apr 01, 2012
We Would See Jesus (Palm Sunday) (31:26)
Referenced Scriptures: John 12:12-21; John 1:1; John 12:1; John 12:44-47
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John 12:12-21
12) On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13) they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"
14) Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written,
15) "Don‘t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey‘s colt."
16) His disciples didn‘t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
17) The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying.
18) For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
19) The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."
20) Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
21) These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."
John 1:1
1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 12:1
1) Therefore six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
John 12:44-47
44) Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
45) He who sees me sees him who sent me.
46) I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
47) If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn‘t believe, I don‘t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
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On Sunday and John Chapter twelve, verses twelve to twenty one wanted you to read these and refuse and let you know about this. This very special occasion and begins a verse twelve the next day the huge crowd arrived at the least heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem, the Brokaw Palm branches went out to meet him, and they cheered hosanna blessed is he who comes in God 's name. Yes, the king of Israel. Jesus got a young donkey and wrote it. The Justices Scripture has hasn't no fear. Doctor Zion. See how your king comes riding a donkey 's colt, the disciples did notice the fulfillment of many Scriptures at the time, but after Jesus was glorified. They remember that what was written about him. That's what was done to him, and this is kind of like where I went on this this message today is that they they didn't understand or didn't comprehend what was happening with Jesus as he was riding into Jerusalem is afterwards when they look back on it, they began to see and to understand what was fulfilled in Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem and fulfilled in his life and his death his crucifixion his resurrection verse seventeen, the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus from the two raising him from the dead was they are giving eyewitness account. So, here is someone else adding to the the crowd. Another group of individuals adding to the crowd about Jesus and his coming into Jerusalem, because there was a crowd that had seen Lazarus risen from the dead, so they are there, adding to the farmer, adding to what's going on that while he raised Lazarus and then we were there we saw so this is going on in the I'll also, it was because they had spread the word of his latest God sign of the cross, while the welcoming parade. The Pharisees took one look and threw up their hands. It's out of control the world of the stampede after him. So this is when the Pharisees decided we got a felon is through powerful and we're going to kill that Lazarus do it Yahweh to get both of them because he can have people raising people from the dead, then verse twenty and twenty one, there were some Greeks in town who had come up to worship at the feast they approached Philip, who was from that CDF in Galilee, the we want to see Jesus. Can you help us. That is the challenge of what I thought up today. We want to see Jesus. And if you can imagine this. This music group breaks coming to this IPO and saying to him, you think of the developer. We need to see Jesus will want to see Jesus. I mean here is the throngs of individuals that have been throwing down their palm branches and and this great crowd of Jesus is being not assaulted, but surrounded by people all the time. And then comes this and into this group of individuals to one of the disciples and said we want to see Jesus was like time on any winning a private audience with the with the with the president with a private audience with Jesus. We want to see Jesus and we look at this, even in all, life is. We approach our life and what's going on. We want to see Jason 's. We would like to see Jesus Christ and ended not only has any person riding a donkey triumphantly Jerusalem, we want to see Jesus Christ. We want to sin and in the whole concept and I know I can begin a bird begin a Genesis in and go through the book of Revelation and describe you. Jesus Christ in all the years and I and all that he has big that has been written about him, but I was wondering as we look at this. How can we see Jesus, how can we see him for who he is, while my favor. One of some of my favorite scriptures are John chapter one verse one in the beginning and one translation hasn't before beginning began, there was God. Before the beginning began, there was the word. The word and God are synonymous. The word became flash and dwelt among us, the word God became flesh and dwelt among us. So, in the Hebrew word means God so we can. They can be interchanged as an and you're in the readings. So in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, so in the beginning was God and God was with God and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made, and within nothing was made that has been made, so it's leaving us to this point of saying that Jesus Christ is the word of God hears God, and he was with God, God, and what does portray the wasp is that there is a morality. There, father, son and Holy Spirit. There are the triune God in him. Janice is it speaks about. Let us make man in our image, after our likeness is it a thing in a support role images of poor God, so it is a life assembly would say some calls would say that there is only there is God the father who created his son and he is able serving as a creation of God, and not so in what we are looking at. We are looking at them, seeing that God father, son, Holy Spirit is trying to being yet one God, and yet they are different expressions of him as the father the son and the Holy Spirit. So the reason that this is so important is that when we want to see Jesus. We want to see him in a way that is a complete picture. Now if I stand up here that want to look at me okay and I looked at me and I can ask you what you see myself that the movie would say something very helpful in short, but anyhow the same AI more than just. I am flesh and blood, you know, some air warfare on my face than before I am a husband, father, grandfather, I am a preacher, teacher chaplain do some things leave impressions saw it out. So there's a lot to it. There's a lot to me. Then, more than one just needs the so whatever we say we want to see Jesus. There is more to Jesus than what we simply understand what we picture in our own thoughts, what with ensuring all my there is more to God than than what we can imagine. So that's why we need the Scriptures, and that's why it's so important as we Wednesday, while what is Jesus really like what we have to go to the word. The word made flesh method of the Scriptures to see and to understand who Jesus Christ. This, and we get a picture of Jesus not only as a human being that we can paint and put a portrait on the wall say that Jesus not work where looking at the picture of the whole picture that is presented in the Scriptures, so that we would be able to see Jesus and to stay what he actually is and what he's done, boys accomplish the reason for we know that Jesus was fully human, but yet he's fully divine, is a created without him was nothing was made, but yet he is also the Savior, God became flesh humanity while God became flesh and dwelt among us, is the Lamb of God sacrifice for mankind. He spoken on is our elder brother. He spoken of as a friend. He spoken of as the lover of our soul as an intercessor. He is a protector is a leader, he is God used the word is life. He is forgiveness. He is Gracie 's mercy. So in all of this we see the word God became flesh and dwelt among us. And when Jesus and Mister Newman, John speaks of this. And then John chapter one is this description shows clearly that John is thinking of Jesus as a human being that he no and that he loved in the New Testament that a hard time believing that Jesus was divine in our concepts and our perspective, we have a hard time believing that he was human, but somehow it was like us godlike honest like me flesh and blood got tired and he needed to sleep needed in Galway and pray that he that he was misunderstood, betrayed by his friends, his closest friends. One of his twelve disciples. We like and then we hopped no, this Jesus be like this, but why we want to see Jesus. Jesus in the Gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ. We cannot separate what he guides from who he is and who he has from what he does, that his teachings and his Miranda miracles were only a way of showing the great value that was in his word and her and his work was complemented by the miracles and miracles complemented the word. And they were there to help people understand that who Jesus was and what was going on when Quinlan and Lindvall, the word creativity. Creative something from nothing in creating something from nothing. He spoke the world into existence. He spoke the stars in the sky, and he knows them all by name. They all have names, sir, we would see Jesus. This creator spoke something from nothing. And because we are God 's created beings created children. We exist only because God made us the agreement was the breath of life. It would become a living soul, and we have special gifts and special gift things that are who we are just wise you look at me. You know there's more to me than what you look at and there's more to me. We yell you know because you don't see me. Some people noting the need for an hour week we get Steve that you that they call Steve up, down, listen to the sermon thoughts about you reading it now, but we know that there is more to do. I am then those on and in front of us and on and on a Sunday morning and we know that there's more to who Jesus is and what we hear about the neck and a sunroof for thirty minutes in a Sunday school lesson and what we read in the Bible there is more to him everything that Jesus had done were Rick and there would not be enough of Scripture that would not be enough pages of the book to write about the only have glimpses of what Jesus is what he has done. We go back to John, chapter twelve verse one you got a sense, six days before Passos of Passover Jesus arrives in Bethany, where Lazarus live so just before Passover, Jesus goes back to Bethany, where Lazarus is alive of Jesus Rosen from that movie was risen from the dead and then, and in the Scripture that we read John seven twelve or seventeen. The crowd had been with him when he called Lazarus from the dead, so there were people he was in Bethany where they were quite excited because Mary Martha and Lazarus are excited about this. Their friend Jesus who is the Messiah, he's come to be with them. He's close enough to Jerusalem to be there and and and a short time to get far enough away from Jerusalem cannot be hunted by the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and those who were driving steam to Calvin 's always invested in the people and Bethany are are quite excited about Lazarus because they know Lazarus was dead. Jesus called them out of the two, and then when Jesus is triumphantly entering into Jerusalem the crowd that was there part of the crowd that was among those laying the Palm branches down was at the red resurrection of Lazarus, and then in chapter twelve verse twenty one. There's this group is coming thing we want to see Jesus. I want to see Jesus because of what has happened in just the short period of time. There is people telling us about a resurrection is the most of our life, our life experiences, and with Lazarus and Greg yell friends of God nine, Martha, their friends of God, they sent word to Jesus. Jesus, the one you love. Lazarus is stick, come quickly little things that make Jesus doesn't come he doesn't answer their prayers, their request on time and Lazarus dies. Jesus shows up after Lazarus has been engraved for a couple of days as a child succumbs to Mary Martha is my present is the Jesus Jesus if he had been here, our brother. When the thought is see what they knew Jesus Messiah miracle worker are him great teacher still needed more to be added to them. Still, Jesus had to continue to reveal who it was beyond what they understood it to be. This is the challenge for us. What we understand Jesus to be there is more to it. Think there's more to our understanding of God and what God wants to do our life and what we know what we have experienced in what we have taught what I was very one part of what I've understood any help in my understanding on my spirit. There's still more to Jesus, the one I know and how does Jesus reveal Natalie how does he continue to open the door and make that knowledge of who I am. There's still more of my lifetime. You can dedicate to God and in and consecrate him, there are still things that in the way that I see things, and in the way that I perceive things as they are still things that need to be changed so one of how is God going to take. I would see Jesus, I want to see Jesus. How do I see him more completely in my life. How do I understand him more public note, remember, Jesus didn't come to reject us. He didn't come to put us in our place. He came to reveal himself to us that we may become more complete in him, so it's not a guilt trip is not a rejection that is not a manipulation. I would say Jesus. This is a declaration of my heart that I want to know him more completely and these individuals who came to Jesus and that you know they were maybe part of the crowd, letting down the palm branches in their coats and all that stuff and all the excitement of Jesus Markey triumph only into Jerusalem riding on this blog and become afterwards and socket of the Filipino we want to stay. Jesus because as we live our life. A lot of times what we as a little short& we want to become the one you love. Lazarus is sick and when Jesus arrived Lazarus is dead and is envying the challenging question to Mary and Martha is well challenging question, Mary Martha put the Jesus is if you than your brother when the dive and Jesus said I am the resurrection of life, you who believes in me, though he were dead yet shall he live you believe this and every time they we haven't experienced up up challenge in our life and the challenge of life and death the challenges of growing and changing the challenges of who we were verses who we are and who we are becoming. And those things come together, Nikolai and a dislike the word of God comes as Jesus Christ came to Mary and Martha, and says we believe that I am and what Jesus is presented to Mary Martha is you want to see me more clearly then they're going to have to live with me through this experience, you're going to have to live with me walk with me through this experience because I am the resurrection and life and Jesus went with Mary and Martha, and the crowd to the tomb of Lazarus Wallace on the way and he spoke Lazarus named Lazarus pins for our grade. These people are part of the group that's waving their palm branches is Paul Neil Wayman, the problem branches taking the will the laying them on road and Jesus is riding triumphantly ended to reform and it's really a real challenge because Jesus knows that in the end of the week. Some of these people are going to be crying out crucify him. And when he's hanging on the cross. All of these individuals are going to doubt whether they really understood what he was about. We thought he was the Messiah and usually got in trouble with our doubts. He doesn't have a problem with our concerns. How does this measure up because if we didn't believe we won. Ask questions if we didn't believe in and in and in God we want real wondering why is this happening the way it is. We had an expectation that didn't happen a certain way and therefore we are challenging ourselves with our heart where questions and were challenging and the question really is, I need to see Jesus more clearly, because what I expected. Didn't happen the way than I thought it showed. And now he is here with and now I'm challenged in my belief that when challenged to to really understand is he really the Messiah. I would see Jesus, Jesus, we in our we need to save for a moment, could you step in here. God, I need you to step into my life and help sort out these days doesn't have a problem with because the question is do you believe in the answer is yes, Lord, I believe I believe but I don't understand. I believe nine Martha yes Jesus, we believe, say the word fails the areas of our life that we opened to them when we know that we have sinned, but that's the conscious of the spirit conscious of God working our hearts and our minds in our soul or spirit, saying you need forgiveness. We confess our sins, that sin is removed by the Spirit 's work feels that areas of our life fills our life but you know what was that when a perfect so when you separate from sin is a strength that we need in our life to walk away from sin. There is a strength that we need in our life that God there are financial needs. I have in my life so I sell my scene into your garden and into your into your kingdom. Believing that you will reap a harvest into wildlife. There was a sickness perhaps in our life becomes, we need to experience Jesus 's healer, there is death that comes to our life and we need to experience that Jesus is the resurrection and the life. There is areas of our life know we are Christians and believers. There are still areas of our life that are challenged. We know that Jesus 's triumph, but I would see Jesus. Jesus says, the last thing the Scriptures, if not chosen me, but I've chosen you I've chosen you because I love you and I know the potential, but in your life. I know what you can become, I created you. I know what's in your heart. I know what's in your mind will you will love seeing them there and try to destroy you and tries to tell you about the preview back from your destiny and I like that word, but I have the same times and try to keep you from becoming when I come that you might have life and have it more abundantly I am come that you might be free from the things that would distract you and pull you apart on the inside for you backwards in life but blinders on to the things that minute, but the things of life to put blinders on. Either you don't see the whole picture. Jesus said when he arrived triumphantly into your life and will say Jesus, I want to see more clearly. Verse forty. John Chapter twelve verse forty four. Jesus summed it all up when he cried out whoever believes in me believes, not just the need, but in the one who sent me whoever looks at me is looking. In fact, at the one who sent when we see Jesus we see God when we say the fruit of God in our life. The fruit of Jesus Christ. Now I can see God working in us. If anyone hears my sayings, and doesn't take it seriously. I don't reject him. This is coming. This is an amazing first chapter twelve verse forty seven if anyone here is what I'm saying. It doesn't take it seriously. I don't reject him. I didn't come to reject the world. I think the site. Jesus didn't come to tell us move over, get out of here. I'm not come to reject us. He came to get himself to loss and whenever we receive him into our life. The whole concept. The whole picture that we have is coming into our life is not about rejection. It's about a Jesus Christ triumphantly entered VeriFone to fulfill what the Scriptures had said what the prophet. The thing about Halle Messiah should, and how bottom homicide should come into the attitude to the to Israel and to the nation of all the prophecies came to do that. There are those religious people like them better people. Jesus had problem with the religious because the religious had premeditated concepts about what Jesus should look like and do. And Jesus didn't fill fulfill any of them, so they weren't killing in our life. We do that by saying I don't really believe the Scriptures help but understand there's some people that they still believe in God, while civil comment about your God, and after they're done telling me I say, why don't believe in that guy even because that's not the one that I know so there are things that maybe we don't understand about God, don't reject because he loves you to reject the word to reject the Scripture is to willfully reject God and stop what God wants to bring into your life. The word. The word made flesh that I have spoken, and that I am the word, and no other is the last word. I'm not taking I'm not making any of this up on my own. Jesus said what he saying is that there is no other revelation, except one. The life-giving. There's no other way to heaven but through Christ, and so we want to take that word that revelation and allow the Holy Spirit to take Ms. Word, the Scripture to bring it into our life, and to challenge our hearts and to know that it's not about rejecting us. It's about changing it. If we think we can do it on our own. We don't have the right understanding of what God wants to do. We must see that it is impossible for us, just as it isn't possible for us to raise our self from the dead is impossible for us to change on our own. We need God in us, Christ alive in me, who were coming to my life into my situations, and to my critical points where Mary and Martha are standing there, our brother is that but the word must come to them and reveal himself to them and turns up reply was the miraculous Lazarus come forth, and things change in the whole new understanding of life comes on the scene for Mary and Martha, and just a few days. They're going to be surrounding the cross up twice the one who raised Lazarus from the dead, and he himself will be dying, and then will be challenged again. I never thought it would be this way. I never thought it would. And like this. I never thought it would happen like this, someone who brought the dead to life. Now dying on a cross. We thought he would be taking Jesus riding to our lives. Let your presence be about us in a way that as we look at the crucifixion. We also know it's Friday, but Sunday's coming. There is a resurrection, and there is a life that will come upon us. Christ, and he will change us the way that only he can. He changes us, by his word. The word became flesh and dwelt among us, is Jesus and he dwells within our hearts, and because he lives we shall live also. Amen. Easter 's coming Easter scum, there was a truth to the word that will take us from what we are to where we need to be in each of our lives including me. So we begin where we are at, not about rejection, not about condemnation is not about a guilt trip it's about a revelation that he's alive, is alive in me, and thenOn Sunday and John Chapter twelve, verses twelve to twenty one wanted you to read these and refuse and let you know about this. This very special occasion and begins a verse twelve the next day the huge crowd arrived at the least heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem, the Brokaw Palm branches went out to meet him, and they cheered hosanna blessed is he who comes in God 's name. Yes, the king of Israel. Jesus got a young donkey and wrote it. The Justices Scripture has hasn't no fear. Doctor Zion. See how your king comes riding a donkey 's colt, the disciples did notice the fulfillment of many Scriptures at the time, but after Jesus was glorified. They remember that what was written about him. That's what was done to him, and this is kind of like where I went on this this message today is that they they didn't understand or didn't comprehend what was happening with Jesus as he was riding into Jerusalem is afterwards when they look back on it, they began to see and to understand what was fulfilled in Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem and fulfilled in his life and his death his crucifixion his resurrection verse seventeen, the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus from the two raising him from the dead was they are giving eyewitness account. So, here is someone else adding to the the crowd. Another group of individuals adding to the crowd about Jesus and his coming into Jerusalem, because there was a crowd that had seen Lazarus risen from the dead, so they are there, adding to the farmer, adding to what's going on that while he raised Lazarus and then we were there we saw so this is going on in the I'll also, it was because they had spread the word of his latest God sign of the cross, while the welcoming parade. The Pharisees took one look and threw up their hands. It's out of control the world of the stampede after him. So this is when the Pharisees decided we got a felon is through powerful and we're going to kill that Lazarus do it Yahweh to get both of them because he can have people raising people from the dead, then verse twenty and twenty one, there were some Greeks in town who had come up to worship at the feast they approached Philip, who was from that CDF in Galilee, the we want to see Jesus. Can you help us. That is the challenge of what I thought up today. We want to see Jesus. And if you can imagine this. This music group breaks coming to this IPO and saying to him, you think of the developer. We need to see Jesus will want to see Jesus. I mean here is the throngs of individuals that have been throwing down their palm branches and and this great crowd of Jesus is being not assaulted, but surrounded by people all the time. And then comes this and into this group of individuals to one of the disciples and said we want to see Jesus was like time on any winning a private audience with the with the with the president with a private audience with Jesus. We want to see Jesus and we look at this, even in all, life is. We approach our life and what's going on. We want to see Jason 's. We would like to see Jesus Christ and ended not only has any person riding a donkey triumphantly Jerusalem, we want to see Jesus Christ. We want to sin and in the whole concept and I know I can begin a bird begin a Genesis in and go through the book of Revelation and describe you. Jesus Christ in all the years and I and all that he has big that has been written about him, but I was wondering as we look at this. How can we see Jesus, how can we see him for who he is, while my favor. One of some of my favorite scriptures are John chapter one verse one in the beginning and one translation hasn't before beginning began, there was God. Before the beginning began, there was the word. The word and God are synonymous. The word became flash and dwelt among us, the word God became flesh and dwelt among us. So, in the Hebrew word means God so we can. They can be interchanged as an and you're in the readings. So in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, so in the beginning was God and God was with God and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made, and within nothing was made that has been made, so it's leaving us to this point of saying that Jesus Christ is the word of God hears God, and he was with God, God, and what does portray the wasp is that there is a morality. There, father, son and Holy Spirit. There are the triune God in him. Janice is it speaks about. Let us make man in our image, after our likeness is it a thing in a support role images of poor God, so it is a life assembly would say some calls would say that there is only there is God the father who created his son and he is able serving as a creation of God, and not so in what we are looking at. We are looking at them, seeing that God father, son, Holy Spirit is trying to being yet one God, and yet they are different expressions of him as the father the son and the Holy Spirit. So the reason that this is so important is that when we want to see Jesus. We want to see him in a way that is a complete picture. Now if I stand up here that want to look at me okay and I looked at me and I can ask you what you see myself that the movie would say something very helpful in short, but anyhow the same AI more than just. I am flesh and blood, you know, some air warfare on my face than before I am a husband, father, grandfather, I am a preacher, teacher chaplain do some things leave impressions saw it out. So there's a lot to it. There's a lot to me. Then, more than one just needs the so whatever we say we want to see Jesus. There is more to Jesus than what we simply understand what we picture in our own thoughts, what with ensuring all my there is more to God than than what we can imagine. So that's why we need the Scriptures, and that's why it's so important as we Wednesday, while what is Jesus really like what we have to go to the word. The word made flesh method of the Scriptures to see and to understand who Jesus Christ. This, and we get a picture of Jesus not only as a human being that we can paint and put a portrait on the wall say that Jesus not work where looking at the picture of the whole picture that is presented in the Scriptures, so that we would be able to see Jesus and to stay what he actually is and what he's done, boys accomplish the reason for we know that Jesus was fully human, but yet he's fully divine, is a created without him was nothing was made, but yet he is also the Savior, God became flesh humanity while God became flesh and dwelt among us, is the Lamb of God sacrifice for mankind. He spoken on is our elder brother. He spoken of as a friend. He spoken of as the lover of our soul as an intercessor. He is a protector is a leader, he is God used the word is life. He is forgiveness. He is Gracie 's mercy. So in all of this we see the word God became flesh and dwelt among us. And when Jesus and Mister Newman, John speaks of this. And then John chapter one is this description shows clearly that John is thinking of Jesus as a human being that he no and that he loved in the New Testament that a hard time believing that Jesus was divine in our concepts and our perspective, we have a hard time believing that he was human, but somehow it was like us godlike honest like me flesh and blood got tired and he needed to sleep needed in Galway and pray that he that he was misunderstood, betrayed by his friends, his closest friends. One of his twelve disciples. We like and then we hopped no, this Jesus be like this, but why we want to see Jesus. Jesus in the Gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ. We cannot separate what he guides from who he is and who he has from what he does, that his teachings and his Miranda miracles were only a way of showing the great value that was in his word and her and his work was complemented by the miracles and miracles complemented the word. And they were there to help people understand that who Jesus was and what was going on when Quinlan and Lindvall, the word creativity. Creative something from nothing in creating something from nothing. He spoke the world into existence. He spoke the stars in the sky, and he knows them all by name. They all have names, sir, we would see Jesus. This creator spoke something from nothing. And because we are God 's created beings created children. We exist only because God made us the agreement was the breath of life. It would become a living soul, and we have special gifts and special gift things that are who we are just wise you look at me. You know there's more to me than what you look at and there's more to me. We yell you know because you don't see me. Some people noting the need for an hour week we get Steve that you that they call Steve up, down, listen to the sermon thoughts about you reading it now, but we know that there is more to do. I am then those on and in front of us and on and on a Sunday morning and we know that there's more to who Jesus is and what we hear about the neck and a sunroof for thirty minutes in a Sunday school lesson and what we read in the Bible there is more to him everything that Jesus had done were Rick and there would not be enough of Scripture that would not be enough pages of the book to write about the only have glimpses of what Jesus is what he has done. We go back to John, chapter twelve verse one you got a sense, six days before Passos of Passover Jesus arrives in Bethany, where Lazarus live so just before Passover, Jesus goes back to Bethany, where Lazarus is alive of Jesus Rosen from that movie was risen from the dead and then, and in the Scripture that we read John seven twelve or seventeen. The crowd had been with him when he called Lazarus from the dead, so there were people he was in Bethany where they were quite excited because Mary Martha and Lazarus are excited about this. Their friend Jesus who is the Messiah, he's come to be with them. He's close enough to Jerusalem to be there and and and a short time to get far enough away from Jerusalem cannot be hunted by the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and those who were driving steam to Calvin 's always invested in the people and Bethany are are quite excited about Lazarus because they know Lazarus was dead. Jesus called them out of the two, and then when Jesus is triumphantly entering into Jerusalem the crowd that was there part of the crowd that was among those laying the Palm branches down was at the red resurrection of Lazarus, and then in chapter twelve verse twenty one. There's this group is coming thing we want to see Jesus. I want to see Jesus because of what has happened in just the short period of time. There is people telling us about a resurrection is the most of our life, our life experiences, and with Lazarus and Greg yell friends of God nine, Martha, their friends of God, they sent word to Jesus. Jesus, the one you love. Lazarus is stick, come quickly little things that make Jesus doesn't come he doesn't answer their prayers, their request on time and Lazarus dies. Jesus shows up after Lazarus has been engraved for a couple of days as a child succumbs to Mary Martha is my present is the Jesus Jesus if he had been here, our brother. When the thought is see what they knew Jesus Messiah miracle worker are him great teacher still needed more to be added to them. Still, Jesus had to continue to reveal who it was beyond what they understood it to be. This is the challenge for us. What we understand Jesus to be there is more to it. Think there's more to our understanding of God and what God wants to do our life and what we know what we have experienced in what we have taught what I was very one part of what I've understood any help in my understanding on my spirit. There's still more to Jesus, the one I know and how does Jesus reveal Natalie how does he continue to open the door and make that knowledge of who I am. There's still more of my lifetime. You can dedicate to God and in and consecrate him, there are still things that in the way that I see things, and in the way that I perceive things as they are still things that need to be changed so one of how is God going to take. I would see Jesus, I want to see Jesus. How do I see him more completely in my life. How do I understand him more public note, remember, Jesus didn't come to reject us. He didn't come to put us in our place. He came to reveal himself to us that we may become more complete in him, so it's not a guilt trip is not a rejection that is not a manipulation. I would say Jesus. This is a declaration of my heart that I want to know him more completely and these individuals who came to Jesus and that you know they were maybe part of the crowd, letting down the palm branches in their coats and all that stuff and all the excitement of Jesus Markey triumph only into Jerusalem riding on this blog and become afterwards and socket of the Filipino we want to stay. Jesus because as we live our life. A lot of times what we as a little short& we want to become the one you love. Lazarus is sick and when Jesus arrived Lazarus is dead and is envying the challenging question to Mary and Martha is well challenging question, Mary Martha put the Jesus is if you than your brother when the dive and Jesus said I am the resurrection of life, you who believes in me, though he were dead yet shall he live you believe this and every time they we haven't experienced up up challenge in our life and the challenge of life and death the challenges of growing and changing the challenges of who we were verses who we are and who we are becoming. And those things come together, Nikolai and a dislike the word of God comes as Jesus Christ came to Mary and Martha, and says we believe that I am and what Jesus is presented to Mary Martha is you want to see me more clearly then they're going to have to live with me through this experience, you're going to have to live with me walk with me through this experience because I am the resurrection and life and Jesus went with Mary and Martha, and the crowd to the tomb of Lazarus Wallace on the way and he spoke Lazarus named Lazarus pins for our grade. These people are part of the group that's waving their palm branches is Paul Neil Wayman, the problem branches taking the will the laying them on road and Jesus is riding triumphantly ended to reform and it's really a real challenge because Jesus knows that in the end of the week. Some of these people are going to be crying out crucify him. And when he's hanging on the cross. All of these individuals are going to doubt whether they really understood what he was about. We thought he was the Messiah and usually got in trouble with our doubts. He doesn't have a problem with our concerns. How does this measure up because if we didn't believe we won. Ask questions if we didn't believe in and in and in God we want real wondering why is this happening the way it is. We had an expectation that didn't happen a certain way and therefore we are challenging ourselves with our heart where questions and were challenging and the question really is, I need to see Jesus more clearly, because what I expected. Didn't happen the way than I thought it showed. And now he is here with and now I'm challenged in my belief that when challenged to to really understand is he really the Messiah. I would see Jesus, Jesus, we in our we need to save for a moment, could you step in here. God, I need you to step into my life and help sort out these days doesn't have a problem with because the question is do you believe in the answer is yes, Lord, I believe I believe but I don't understand. I believe nine Martha yes Jesus, we believe, say the word fails the areas of our life that we opened to them when we know that we have sinned, but that's the conscious of the spirit conscious of God working our hearts and our minds in our soul or spirit, saying you need forgiveness. We confess our sins, that sin is removed by the Spirit 's work feels that areas of our life fills our life but you know what was that when a perfect so when you separate from sin is a strength that we need in our life to walk away from sin. There is a strength that we need in our life that God there are financial needs. I have in my life so I sell my scene into your garden and into your into your kingdom. Believing that you will reap a harvest into wildlife. There was a sickness perhaps in our life becomes, we need to experience Jesus 's healer, there is death that comes to our life and we need to experience that Jesus is the resurrection and the life. There is areas of our life know we are Christians and believers. There are still areas of our life that are challenged. We know that Jesus 's triumph, but I would see Jesus. Jesus says, the last thing the Scriptures, if not chosen me, but I've chosen you I've chosen you because I love you and I know the potential, but in your life. I know what you can become, I created you. I know what's in your heart. I know what's in your mind will you will love seeing them there and try to destroy you and tries to tell you about the preview back from your destiny and I like that word, but I have the same times and try to keep you from becoming when I come that you might have life and have it more abundantly I am come that you might be free from the things that would distract you and pull you apart on the inside for you backwards in life but blinders on to the things that minute, but the things of life to put blinders on. Either you don't see the whole picture. Jesus said when he arrived triumphantly into your life and will say Jesus, I want to see more clearly. Verse forty. John Chapter twelve verse forty four. Jesus summed it all up when he cried out whoever believes in me believes, not just the need, but in the one who sent me whoever looks at me is looking. In fact, at the one who sent when we see Jesus we see God when we say the fruit of God in our life. The fruit of Jesus Christ. Now I can see God working in us. If anyone hears my sayings, and doesn't take it seriously. I don't reject him. This is coming. This is an amazing first chapter twelve verse forty seven if anyone here is what I'm saying. It doesn't take it seriously. I don't reject him. I didn't come to reject the world. I think the site. Jesus didn't come to tell us move over, get out of here. I'm not come to reject us. He came to get himself to loss and whenever we receive him into our life. The whole concept. The whole picture that we have is coming into our life is not about rejection. It's about a Jesus Christ triumphantly entered VeriFone to fulfill what the Scriptures had said what the prophet. The thing about Halle Messiah should, and how bottom homicide should come into the attitude to the to Israel and to the nation of all the prophecies came to do that. There are those religious people like them better people. Jesus had problem with the religious because the religious had premeditated concepts about what Jesus should look like and do. And Jesus didn't fill fulfill any of them, so they weren't killing in our life. We do that by saying I don't really believe the Scriptures help but understand there's some people that they still believe in God, while civil comment about your God, and after they're done telling me I say, why don't believe in that guy even because that's not the one that I know so there are things that maybe we don't understand about God, don't reject because he loves you to reject the word to reject the Scripture is to willfully reject God and stop what God wants to bring into your life. The word. The word made flesh that I have spoken, and that I am the word, and no other is the last word. I'm not taking I'm not making any of this up on my own. Jesus said what he saying is that there is no other revelation, except one. The life-giving. There's no other way to heaven but through Christ, and so we want to take that word that revelation and allow the Holy Spirit to take Ms. Word, the Scripture to bring it into our life, and to challenge our hearts and to know that it's not about rejecting us. It's about changing it. If we think we can do it on our own. We don't have the right understanding of what God wants to do. We must see that it is impossible for us, just as it isn't possible for us to raise our self from the dead is impossible for us to change on our own. We need God in us, Christ alive in me, who were coming to my life into my situations, and to my critical points where Mary and Martha are standing there, our brother is that but the word must come to them and reveal himself to them and turns up reply was the miraculous Lazarus come forth, and things change in the whole new understanding of life comes on the scene for Mary and Martha, and just a few days. They're going to be surrounding the cross up twice the one who raised Lazarus from the dead, and he himself will be dying, and then will be challenged again. I never thought it would be this way. I never thought it would. And like this. I never thought it would happen like this, someone who brought the dead to life. Now dying on a cross. We thought he would be taking Jesus riding to our lives. Let your presence be about us in a way that as we look at the crucifixion. We also know it's Friday, but Sunday's coming. There is a resurrection, and there is a life that will come upon us. Christ, and he will change us the way that only he can. He changes us, by his word. The word became flesh and dwelt among us, is Jesus and he dwells within our hearts, and because he lives we shall live also. Amen. Easter 's coming Easter scum, there was a truth to the word that will take us from what we are to where we need to be in each of our lives including me. So we begin where we are at, not about rejection, not about condemnation is not about a guilt trip it's about a revelation that he's alive, is alive in me, and then