Welcome to Windber PA's First Assembly of God's The Sermon Palm Sunday by David McGee Page

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Five holes to live in chapter nineteen verses twenty eight to forty four, Luke chapter nineteen. Verses twenty eight to forty four and of course it's on Sunday and the triathlete through Jesus Christ and the Jerusalem. Luke chapter nineteen. Beginning in verse twenty eight to forty four, and in case you don't know next Sunday is show up Sunday is Easter Sunday and I would like to not have an empty seat, you can say that the Soviet that means I will do my part, I want to our church after Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going to Jerusalem. And as he approached Bethpage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, go to the village ahead of you and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone ask you why you on tying it. Tell them the Lord needs it. Those who were sent ahead went and found that just as they had been told and as they were untying the colt, its owner asked them why are you untying the colt, they replied the Lord needs it. They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it as he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road when he came near to the place where the road goes down the mountain wallows, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voice for all the miracles that they had seen my sister, Kate, who comes in the name of the Lord, Jason Hammond and glory in the highest sum of Pharisees in the crowd said the Jesus teacher rebuke your disciples, I tell you the reply. If they keep quiet. The stones will cry out, and as he approached Jerusalem and saw the city. He wept over it. Instead, if you you only known longest day, what would bring you peace but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you in hand you in on every side they will- into the ground and you and your children within the walls they will not leave one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of gods coming to you. If you find that picture you had about Jerusalem and the Temple and things like that. You can find up for a little later I would appreciate it. Today is a great day we celebrated as a day off, Palm, Palm Sunday it out if you are in the Middle East and palm trees everywhere, no matter there is much as we have oak trees here and now the palm branches and so on and so Jesus had come to this place. One week before Passover. He arrived to Jerusalem, and he is making his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. And as he has his disciples are they've gotten the Colton, Jesus is riding in. They are praising God, and declaring that hosanna that this is that this is thirteen. They believe that Jesus has come for this appointed time to set himself up as a king, and so they lay their palm branches on the road. I only kind from the trees and laying them on the road. They take their clothes off and laid them on the road is a donkey asses all Renée had their loud cries of hosanna to Jesus and they are saying basically long live the King. Long live the King. And they know that Jesus was there because they knew Robin believed in a processing in Zechariah chapter nine verse nine says stay here. Kane comes to you righteous, and having salvation gentle and riding on a donkey on a cold, the fall of a donkey that was written four hundred and eighty years higher this event on Jesus riding into Jerusalem, so the prophets had foretold about Jesus, the prophet had declared that there would be a Messiah that would come and leave the people were aware of these prophecies, they were aware of this declaration about the Messiah coming, except they didn't quite get the connection between who Jesus was and how is the prosthetic message out of the Old Testament home was getting into the life of Jesus. So when Jesus entered Jerusalem is well known, and we know that crowds were crying out in loud voices because of what they had seen Jesus do so. They were just all hype. And some religious fervor. They were praising God because these are the individuals who had seen Jesus and heard what he had done many of them, and sinker. They had come to Jerusalem for this Passover, and they come from the neighboring areas of neighboring surrounding areas. Our way is Galilean and come visit to Jerusalem for this time. And so, as they're coming they are celebrating this man, and they were celebrating Jesus and all that he had done so. It is a lie. Somebody's in the crowd stirring them up. They are just rejoicing in what Jesus Christ has done for them, so everyone was there was a time of a popular mood toward Jesus. It was a crowning day as it were, for Jesus. The popularity had risen ten is great and I will recall frenzy. But in great excitement, and this is Palm Sunday and they were all rejoicing in what Jesus had accomplished and what he had done even whenever they were securing the donkey while all they needed to do was say the Lord needs it. And that was enough for the guy who all the donkey all taken the Lord needs it taken this long for and then thinking for him as Jesus then cometh of this place in the road as it descended the mountain wall of public input data that picture of the amount of olives. Actually, that the Dome of the rock. When it's done. Little Rock is this is not the Jewish Temple. This is the Muslim mosque, but this is built on what used to be the Temple Mount, the storm of the rock is huge, but the Temple that Jesus came over them out if you're coming up over from Pleasantville, and if you're coming up the mountain, you would come to the page will let you how it is on this way coming up into Jerusalem, so you're on this backside of the mountain coming up over the mountain as you come up to the top of the mountain is the peak here at the elevation sign they're coming along talking about elevation sign out there okay, they got the elevation sign as you can look over that mountain that that that page about three hundred yards, maybe a little further maybe mile or so out in the distance is the temple, so you come up over the mountain as you come up over the mountain you can see Jerusalem, so you can't say it from course from the other side of the mound was to get to the page you start as soon as you rise up over that. That's whenever you see Jerusalem and stretches out before you read this mount is where this dome of the rock is the Wailing Wall that you always hear about within people are praying is on the other side of this film of the rock, and it is probably as high as the debate humanism from the lack of floor up to the ceiling and where the ceiling is that part would be the bottom of this simple, so that's how big his areas, and where the Temple would've set with maybe two football fields in diameter. It's a huge place. It's a huge place one. This is inside of that temple. Then, was the place they get all the sacrifice inside the walls was always quite so when Jesus then comes up over the October Babcock becomes up on top of the ridge. He then looks at Jerusalem and the temples in front of him. As soon as it goes up over the race is probably not fifty yards and then starts down the valley. This is the mount of olives and goes down into a valley which is where Jesus will pray on Thursday with amount of almost the olive trees is going to pass through that all of Orchard as he goes down in the valley and up the other side into Jerusalem, so as he comes across the top. There, this is where the audience. He said for the disciples to go get a donkey Blystone, the backside is aware on the Pleasantville side of the mountain. He says his disciples go into the village up over the hill and get a donkey and they would ask his thumb along to bring a donkey here and we will ride into Jerusalem and see why is he gets to the top of the mountain. That's whatever the excitement really begins to build and the people recognized. Jesus enters files of the thousands of people in town because this was an historic holiday Passover and everyone would come to Jerusalem for the holiday. They were there and they were camped out everywhere. There were no motels there was no motel of the garden spot garden spot motel picture Denton late here so it was that type of thousands and thousands of people were in town, and when they recognized Jesus began the crowds, you know, Jesus is here and all the people who saw him do their miracles saw him do his miracles, and they were there and they began to say Jesus is here and he began his big celebration. Then he handed joyful praise God and allowed wife's blessing the kingdom comes in the name of Lord you imagine thousands and thousands of people. It was invented football games and places in arenas and yell goodbyes and watching basketball that crowds cheering, and so on. Imagine that there is all this in a loud voice of the Bible says with a loud voice to shout they are ecstatic Saturday. Gil Jesus is coming out. The sad thing is, these are praising God here at this moment had a conflicting ideas about Jesus than expected, the national leader that expected of King like David to come and liberate them from the Roman oppressors. They were deaf to the prophetic message that had been written they were aware of some of the prosthetic messages, but I didn't see how the other. Once you know that he would be Messiah that would die first. People in setting up a kingdom spirit that didn't fit so they didn't pay attention to somewhat like us. Now, there are certain things we like to hear certain things we don't like to hear well. They were deaf to the prophets message about the Messiah and blind to the real mission of Jesus. Verse thirty nine, says that some of the Pharisees said, teacher rape you, your disciples wanted to make them be quiet. They thought the word of the disciples and his followers were sacrilegious and blasphemous. This idea that Jesus is King. They wanted that to be stopped. The Pharisees did not want Jesus challenging their power and their religious authority. They do not change that much. This is still one of the our main reasons for not giving crisis full place in our own lives because we do not want to give up the idea that we have say over our lives. That's furthest from the truth that somehow I have to become somebody different if I become a Christian. No, we become the person that God wanted us to be on the beginning and that there are things that we do and say that are hindering us from being really successful with our lives in which we will find true success, which is a relationship with God, and a place of forgiveness and letting go of the past and having a future and having an understanding that I cannot be anywhere that God is not there with me. The Pharisees in these individuals had the wrong idea about Jesus and his mission, and they set out to stop in and to destroy it. The Pharisees felt threatened by Jesus. These popular is influential. It carries authority with the crowd. It will role of the good thing the wind got going here. The Romans are in charge and then given us the authority and Jesus is not a common mess up the whole thing is that somehow God had the wrong idea. So God even uses the misguided understanding of the Pharisees to fulfill his own divine plan. Sometimes we have the wrong concept of what God wants in our lives. We know that the message is so great. I will have such an impact and is so important that if we do not declare it the rocks of the trial when the Pharisees wanted Jesus to silence everyone Jesus said, I can't do that because of these people won't require who I am what I have come to do if they won't declarant the rocks will speak the rocks will declare it, and it's like there is such a the mine message in our lives in such a divine message that comes the last if we don't pay attention to it is a fall out of the sky. If you come to us from the rock significant progress from places that we never dreamed up almost made me through the lives and will step back and say who, when, where that came from, and then will go on as if it didn't happen. God has a way of speaking truth to our lives of bringing us to a place where in his presence. There is no place that we can be the God is not there. There's sometimes that it's more real than others. No like being together and singing, and all the saying the same things in focusing on the same things in focusing on God of focusing on our worship and accepted to. They were all in one accord when people are in one accord it's like a combination of faith. The pulling together a Mark Dayton pulling together of our worship a pulling together of all the things in it in the presence of God in the spirit of God is able to move sometimes even in a different way than he does. Whenever we are in our own little and our own prayers. So God times any space velocity touches our lives in it. It's like a balancing out the reality of God 's presence in the notes making of God 's word. If we don't have God 's word. We don't understand his spirit. It takes a spirit to help us understand his word that you go together when we try to do and have a balance of both in the praise and worship and singing and in the preaching and that it would be analysis of the ball would help bring both the life in our lives as cases approach the city it would have gotten to that mouse, no up over the oh no they were springing their praises to him and as he was perhaps looking at it from this view if it is a strain across the top of one Hill. The top of the other, and as he's looking across across the across the Valley and necessary. Jesus stops and began to cry. We for the city for the people because he's green. All that he wanted to do through them and to do through the people to do through the city. What he wanted to accomplish. If you think about all of the profits. The cane you think about all the men of God that the other great prophets and kings David and inside David. This was David's city, David sent this office as his capital and this is David said enough was called, they would say because David. He conquered the city. Any nativist capital and ever since then it's been the focal point Jerusalem, not the three metal letters are Jerusalem. J ER U S Elliott amid thousands of years ago was not set up their connect Jesus waits for the city. The profits that we read about in and in the Scripture, Jesus weeps over the city and over the people there were times that prophets and kings went out from here. They should've never won the battles they should've never been able to conquer their files. By Gil under the direction of God. They were able to go out and take the enemy and they were able to comeback victories in him, and possible logs. It takes about five minutes to fly over Israel. If you're in a jet. No fighters. It's a little kind I think in their defense, their defenses, and so on the plight of millions of people against billions of people and somehow they always win. Jesus weeps over Jerusalem over what they could be the opportunities that they had if you even you had only known on this day will bring you peace. If he only knew who it was that was here before you Pharisees are saying stopping people from flooding palm branches and stop them from what they're saying it's sacrilegious and the people there all cherry because they think it's very coming back to liberate them, and to rid the Romans, Jesus stopped and weeps, because they don't yet understand he's not upset with them in the sense that he's going out the jewel lesson is broken, it is hard because they don't see it will comprehend what it's all about it. Sometimes I think about in our own lives. It is in Jesus is stopping red in our life in Saint David, yet still don't get it yet, Julia, there are certain things that you just don't understand and goddesses that while Bertie Jewell lesson. It waits for us to his heart is broken because we don't have a real picture of what he wants to do in our lives were like the Pharisees are more likely the religious people, and we think God 's destiny is going to do that, and he's not a change things the way that we want them to be in drive out the enemy and get rid of all the bad people and we can be happy forever more Alice in Wonderland that we do want to go out and rent wrong rabbit hole we want to want to seek God for who you are not a fairytale, God is a very real person God in Christ they are all equal in nature father, son and Holy Spirit are equal in nature. They all have the same. The father is the same as a son, the son of the same as a father, and in this spirit is the same as asunder all three equal in nature submissive and purpose. Jesus is here to do the will of the father, the Spirit is here now because Jesus is a right hand of the father try different distinct, yet one seems like it's impossible to think that they get here in his presence seems to make sense, father, son and Spirit. If you only knew the things that I have for you. The only knew what I had. We ask God to open our eyes for you see the world is bigger than we can imagine. But yet each of us belong. Each of us belong in this place. Each of us belong in this place that God has has given us, and he doesn't come to teach us a lesson becomes to get. Also Revelation because they give us an understanding of an odd moment when things change. We are called by God, and chosen by God for purpose. Jesus comes at this moment in our lives, and he staunchly looks over us and he says, the less I am the bread of life. I am the light of the world. I am the door. I am the good shepherd. I am the resurrection, I am blind, I am the way the truth, I am the vine, and he speaks these words to us. We see Jesus coming to recognize that he is coming he comes into our lives every moment of every day do we recognize this, and we recognize this we recognize Islam. We recognize this call upon our lives. Then he makes a difference, but his spirit gives us life and strengthen whole and that we have life in this life, and want to come. Jesus was coming, he was riding into Jerusalem. He waits over the city, but you know what he's come to do battle is come to do battle with the enemy of our soul not to equal forces, please come to finish the battle for you see, he created us in his image, and by our ability to choose. We chose to walk away from God in the Garden sin entered our lives and Internet humanity and send brought about a separation from God and from eternal life with Jesus came to Jerusalem this day he came to Jerusalem this day to be the king not seated upon a throne, but hanging from a cross. It is there that he would change mankind and change humanity forever is a story. It's called the twice only boat this young boy and his dad made a beautiful scaled sailboats they carpet. They painted it. They place all the right sales in the right place and they made the scale they spent weeks and months crafting this boat and finally the day came for the disabled and they went out to the lake was hugely. They were absolutely the practice of and to see how it works, and sure enough as the place in the water away and came and caught the sales and took out into the lake. It was perfect in the sense that it could sail in the winter than an essay about across the lake and it was lost one day beyond why was walking through town and bearing the window. The store was his boat and went into the all-around. The story says. That's why both my dad and I made it in the owner said it's still going to cost so the boy went home and got his savings and took everything he had in back and he and his father went back and he purchased the boat that he walked out of the door. He told his dad, dad, this is my twice own boat. Once, when we created, and now that I have brought it back. God created us and we sailed off in our sin in our rebellion, but at the cross Jesus purchased us redeems us buys us back. We are his wife's old creation. Once, when he created us and now when he forgives us, father, thank you sometimes we are resistant to your loved sometimes we don't understand the Lord, we thank you for loving us. It is a love that looks beyond our faults and see this sees the need of our lives for your desire of God is to purchase us you died upon the cross that you might redeem us purchase us back from our sins and our failures. Thank you, O God, for forgiving us living in our lives. I ask that this Palm Sunday be one in which we celebrate your triumphal entry in our own lives and the God of your recognize the great value that you place upon us. So bless this day here in your presence, the God we can become what you want us to be. May you never weep over our lives again because we will listen to your voice. Renew our hearts and minds by your spirits that your word. Oh God, will become the strength of our lives as we recognize we are twice owned by you in Five holes to live in chapter nineteen verses twenty eight to forty four, Luke chapter nineteen. Verses twenty eight to forty four and of course it's on Sunday and the triathlete through Jesus Christ and the Jerusalem. Luke chapter nineteen. Beginning in verse twenty eight to forty four, and in case you don't know next Sunday is show up Sunday is Easter Sunday and I would like to not have an empty seat, you can say that the Soviet that means I will do my part, I want to our church after Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going to Jerusalem. And as he approached Bethpage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, go to the village ahead of you and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone ask you why you on tying it. Tell them the Lord needs it. Those who were sent ahead went and found that just as they had been told and as they were untying the colt, its owner asked them why are you untying the colt, they replied the Lord needs it. They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it as he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road when he came near to the place where the road goes down the mountain wallows, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voice for all the miracles that they had seen my sister, Kate, who comes in the name of the Lord, Jason Hammond and glory in the highest sum of Pharisees in the crowd said the Jesus teacher rebuke your disciples, I tell you the reply. If they keep quiet. The stones will cry out, and as he approached Jerusalem and saw the city. He wept over it. Instead, if you you only known longest day, what would bring you peace but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you in hand you in on every side they will- into the ground and you and your children within the walls they will not leave one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of gods coming to you. If you find that picture you had about Jerusalem and the Temple and things like that. You can find up for a little later I would appreciate it. Today is a great day we celebrated as a day off, Palm, Palm Sunday it out if you are in the Middle East and palm trees everywhere, no matter there is much as we have oak trees here and now the palm branches and so on and so Jesus had come to this place. One week before Passover. He arrived to Jerusalem, and he is making his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. And as he has his disciples are they've gotten the Colton, Jesus is riding in. They are praising God, and declaring that hosanna that this is that this is thirteen. They believe that Jesus has come for this appointed time to set himself up as a king, and so they lay their palm branches on the road. I only kind from the trees and laying them on the road. They take their clothes off and laid them on the road is a donkey asses all Renée had their loud cries of hosanna to Jesus and they are saying basically long live the King. Long live the King. And they know that Jesus was there because they knew Robin believed in a processing in Zechariah chapter nine verse nine says stay here. Kane comes to you righteous, and having salvation gentle and riding on a donkey on a cold, the fall of a donkey that was written four hundred and eighty years higher this event on Jesus riding into Jerusalem, so the prophets had foretold about Jesus, the prophet had declared that there would be a Messiah that would come and leave the people were aware of these prophecies, they were aware of this declaration about the Messiah coming, except they didn't quite get the connection between who Jesus was and how is the prosthetic message out of the Old Testament home was getting into the life of Jesus. So when Jesus entered Jerusalem is well known, and we know that crowds were crying out in loud voices because of what they had seen Jesus do so. They were just all hype. And some religious fervor. They were praising God because these are the individuals who had seen Jesus and heard what he had done many of them, and sinker. They had come to Jerusalem for this Passover, and they come from the neighboring areas of neighboring surrounding areas. Our way is Galilean and come visit to Jerusalem for this time. And so, as they're coming they are celebrating this man, and they were celebrating Jesus and all that he had done so. It is a lie. Somebody's in the crowd stirring them up. They are just rejoicing in what Jesus Christ has done for them, so everyone was there was a time of a popular mood toward Jesus. It was a crowning day as it were, for Jesus. The popularity had risen ten is great and I will recall frenzy. But in great excitement, and this is Palm Sunday and they were all rejoicing in what Jesus had accomplished and what he had done even whenever they were securing the donkey while all they needed to do was say the Lord needs it. And that was enough for the guy who all the donkey all taken the Lord needs it taken this long for and then thinking for him as Jesus then cometh of this place in the road as it descended the mountain wall of public input data that picture of the amount of olives. Actually, that the Dome of the rock. When it's done. Little Rock is this is not the Jewish Temple. This is the Muslim mosque, but this is built on what used to be the Temple Mount, the storm of the rock is huge, but the Temple that Jesus came over them out if you're coming up over from Pleasantville, and if you're coming up the mountain, you would come to the page will let you how it is on this way coming up into Jerusalem, so you're on this backside of the mountain coming up over the mountain as you come up to the top of the mountain is the peak here at the elevation sign they're coming along talking about elevation sign out there okay, they got the elevation sign as you can look over that mountain that that that page about three hundred yards, maybe a little further maybe mile or so out in the distance is the temple, so you come up over the mountain as you come up over the mountain you can see Jerusalem, so you can't say it from course from the other side of the mound was to get to the page you start as soon as you rise up over that. That's whenever you see Jerusalem and stretches out before you read this mount is where this dome of the rock is the Wailing Wall that you always hear about within people are praying is on the other side of this film of the rock, and it is probably as high as the debate humanism from the lack of floor up to the ceiling and where the ceiling is that part would be the bottom of this simple, so that's how big his areas, and where the Temple would've set with maybe two football fields in diameter. It's a huge place. It's a huge place one. This is inside of that temple. Then, was the place they get all the sacrifice inside the walls was always quite so when Jesus then comes up over the October Babcock becomes up on top of the ridge. He then looks at Jerusalem and the temples in front of him. As soon as it goes up over the race is probably not fifty yards and then starts down the valley. This is the mount of olives and goes down into a valley which is where Jesus will pray on Thursday with amount of almost the olive trees is going to pass through that all of Orchard as he goes down in the valley and up the other side into Jerusalem, so as he comes across the top. There, this is where the audience. He said for the disciples to go get a donkey Blystone, the backside is aware on the Pleasantville side of the mountain. He says his disciples go into the village up over the hill and get a donkey and they would ask his thumb along to bring a donkey here and we will ride into Jerusalem and see why is he gets to the top of the mountain. That's whatever the excitement really begins to build and the people recognized. Jesus enters files of the thousands of people in town because this was an historic holiday Passover and everyone would come to Jerusalem for the holiday. They were there and they were camped out everywhere. There were no motels there was no motel of the garden spot garden spot motel picture Denton late here so it was that type of thousands and thousands of people were in town, and when they recognized Jesus began the crowds, you know, Jesus is here and all the people who saw him do their miracles saw him do his miracles, and they were there and they began to say Jesus is here and he began his big celebration. Then he handed joyful praise God and allowed wife's blessing the kingdom comes in the name of Lord you imagine thousands and thousands of people. It was invented football games and places in arenas and yell goodbyes and watching basketball that crowds cheering, and so on. Imagine that there is all this in a loud voice of the Bible says with a loud voice to shout they are ecstatic Saturday. Gil Jesus is coming out. The sad thing is, these are praising God here at this moment had a conflicting ideas about Jesus than expected, the national leader that expected of King like David to come and liberate them from the Roman oppressors. They were deaf to the prophetic message that had been written they were aware of some of the prosthetic messages, but I didn't see how the other. Once you know that he would be Messiah that would die first. People in setting up a kingdom spirit that didn't fit so they didn't pay attention to somewhat like us. Now, there are certain things we like to hear certain things we don't like to hear well. They were deaf to the prophets message about the Messiah and blind to the real mission of Jesus. Verse thirty nine, says that some of the Pharisees said, teacher rape you, your disciples wanted to make them be quiet. They thought the word of the disciples and his followers were sacrilegious and blasphemous. This idea that Jesus is King. They wanted that to be stopped. The Pharisees did not want Jesus challenging their power and their religious authority. They do not change that much. This is still one of the our main reasons for not giving crisis full place in our own lives because we do not want to give up the idea that we have say over our lives. That's furthest from the truth that somehow I have to become somebody different if I become a Christian. No, we become the person that God wanted us to be on the beginning and that there are things that we do and say that are hindering us from being really successful with our lives in which we will find true success, which is a relationship with God, and a place of forgiveness and letting go of the past and having a future and having an understanding that I cannot be anywhere that God is not there with me. The Pharisees in these individuals had the wrong idea about Jesus and his mission, and they set out to stop in and to destroy it. The Pharisees felt threatened by Jesus. These popular is influential. It carries authority with the crowd. It will role of the good thing the wind got going here. The Romans are in charge and then given us the authority and Jesus is not a common mess up the whole thing is that somehow God had the wrong idea. So God even uses the misguided understanding of the Pharisees to fulfill his own divine plan. Sometimes we have the wrong concept of what God wants in our lives. We know that the message is so great. I will have such an impact and is so important that if we do not declare it the rocks of the trial when the Pharisees wanted Jesus to silence everyone Jesus said, I can't do that because of these people won't require who I am what I have come to do if they won't declarant the rocks will speak the rocks will declare it, and it's like there is such a the mine message in our lives in such a divine message that comes the last if we don't pay attention to it is a fall out of the sky. If you come to us from the rock significant progress from places that we never dreamed up almost made me through the lives and will step back and say who, when, where that came from, and then will go on as if it didn't happen. God has a way of speaking truth to our lives of bringing us to a place where in his presence. There is no place that we can be the God is not there. There's sometimes that it's more real than others. No like being together and singing, and all the saying the same things in focusing on the same things in focusing on God of focusing on our worship and accepted to. They were all in one accord when people are in one accord it's like a combination of faith. The pulling together a Mark Dayton pulling together of our worship a pulling together of all the things in it in the presence of God in the spirit of God is able to move sometimes even in a different way than he does. Whenever we are in our own little and our own prayers. So God times any space velocity touches our lives in it. It's like a balancing out the reality of God 's presence in the notes making of God 's word. If we don't have God 's word. We don't understand his spirit. It takes a spirit to help us understand his word that you go together when we try to do and have a balance of both in the praise and worship and singing and in the preaching and that it would be analysis of the ball would help bring both the life in our lives as cases approach the city it would have gotten to that mouse, no up over the oh no they were springing their praises to him and as he was perhaps looking at it from this view if it is a strain across the top of one Hill. The top of the other, and as he's looking across across the across the Valley and necessary. Jesus stops and began to cry. We for the city for the people because he's green. All that he wanted to do through them and to do through the people to do through the city. What he wanted to accomplish. If you think about all of the profits. The cane you think about all the men of God that the other great prophets and kings David and inside David. This was David's city, David sent this office as his capital and this is David said enough was called, they would say because David. He conquered the city. Any nativist capital and ever since then it's been the focal point Jerusalem, not the three metal letters are Jerusalem. J ER U S Elliott amid thousands of years ago was not set up their connect Jesus waits for the city. The profits that we read about in and in the Scripture, Jesus weeps over the city and over the people there were times that prophets and kings went out from here. They should've never won the battles they should've never been able to conquer their files. By Gil under the direction of God. They were able to go out and take the enemy and they were able to comeback victories in him, and possible logs. It takes about five minutes to fly over Israel. If you're in a jet. No fighters. It's a little kind I think in their defense, their defenses, and so on the plight of millions of people against billions of people and somehow they always win. Jesus weeps over Jerusalem over what they could be the opportunities that they had if you even you had only known on this day will bring you peace. If he only knew who it was that was here before you Pharisees are saying stopping people from flooding palm branches and stop them from what they're saying it's sacrilegious and the people there all cherry because they think it's very coming back to liberate them, and to rid the Romans, Jesus stopped and weeps, because they don't yet understand he's not upset with them in the sense that he's going out the jewel lesson is broken, it is hard because they don't see it will comprehend what it's all about it. Sometimes I think about in our own lives. It is in Jesus is stopping red in our life in Saint David, yet still don't get it yet, Julia, there are certain things that you just don't understand and goddesses that while Bertie Jewell lesson. It waits for us to his heart is broken because we don't have a real picture of what he wants to do in our lives were like the Pharisees are more likely the religious people, and we think God 's destiny is going to do that, and he's not a change things the way that we want them to be in drive out the enemy and get rid of all the bad people and we can be happy forever more Alice in Wonderland that we do want to go out and rent wrong rabbit hole we want to want to seek God for who you are not a fairytale, God is a very real person God in Christ they are all equal in nature father, son and Holy Spirit are equal in nature. They all have the same. The father is the same as a son, the son of the same as a father, and in this spirit is the same as asunder all three equal in nature submissive and purpose. Jesus is here to do the will of the father, the Spirit is here now because Jesus is a right hand of the father try different distinct, yet one seems like it's impossible to think that they get here in his presence seems to make sense, father, son and Spirit. If you only knew the things that I have for you. The only knew what I had. We ask God to open our eyes for you see the world is bigger than we can imagine. But yet each of us belong. Each of us belong in this place. Each of us belong in this place that God has has given us, and he doesn't come to teach us a lesson becomes to get. Also Revelation because they give us an understanding of an odd moment when things change. We are called by God, and chosen by God for purpose. Jesus comes at this moment in our lives, and he staunchly looks over us and he says, the less I am the bread of life. I am the light of the world. I am the door. I am the good shepherd. I am the resurrection, I am blind, I am the way the truth, I am the vine, and he speaks these words to us. We see Jesus coming to recognize that he is coming he comes into our lives every moment of every day do we recognize this, and we recognize this we recognize Islam. We recognize this call upon our lives. Then he makes a difference, but his spirit gives us life and strengthen whole and that we have life in this life, and want to come. Jesus was coming, he was riding into Jerusalem. He waits over the city, but you know what he's come to do battle is come to do battle with the enemy of our soul not to equal forces, please come to finish the battle for you see, he created us in his image, and by our ability to choose. We chose to walk away from God in the Garden sin entered our lives and Internet humanity and send brought about a separation from God and from eternal life with Jesus came to Jerusalem this day he came to Jerusalem this day to be the king not seated upon a throne, but hanging from a cross. It is there that he would change mankind and change humanity forever is a story. It's called the twice only boat this young boy and his dad made a beautiful scaled sailboats they carpet. They painted it. They place all the right sales in the right place and they made the scale they spent weeks and months crafting this boat and finally the day came for the disabled and they went out to the lake was hugely. They were absolutely the practice of and to see how it works, and sure enough as the place in the water away and came and caught the sales and took out into the lake. It was perfect in the sense that it could sail in the winter than an essay about across the lake and it was lost one day beyond why was walking through town and bearing the window. The store was his boat and went into the all-around. The story says. That's why both my dad and I made it in the owner said it's still going to cost so the boy went home and got his savings and took everything he had in back and he and his father went back and he purchased the boat that he walked out of the door. He told his dad, dad, this is my twice own boat. Once, when we created, and now that I have brought it back. God created us and we sailed off in our sin in our rebellion, but at the cross Jesus purchased us redeems us buys us back. We are his wife's old creation. Once, when he created us and now when he forgives us, father, thank you sometimes we are resistant to your loved sometimes we don't understand the Lord, we thank you for loving us. It is a love that looks beyond our faults and see this sees the need of our lives for your desire of God is to purchase us you died upon the cross that you might redeem us purchase us back from our sins and our failures. Thank you, O God, for forgiving us living in our lives. I ask that this Palm Sunday be one in which we celebrate your triumphal entry in our own lives and the God of your recognize the great value that you place upon us. So bless this day here in your presence, the God we can become what you want us to be. May you never weep over our lives again because we will listen to your voice. Renew our hearts and minds by your spirits that your word. Oh God, will become the strength of our lives as we recognize we are twice owned by you in