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Palm Sunday "Right, But Not"|| Sunday Service || March 29, 2026 · Wesley at FSU & TSC

• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's Palm Sunday.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: In uh my tradition, when I grew up, uh we would we would do this kind of call and response on Palm Sunday.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: So can you just can you just hey buddy, how you doing?
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm as old as you are.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: I know what you're about to do.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: Jay's is here.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh very excited.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, um can can we uh can we just try this?
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's gonna be cringe and it's okay.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not EJ's song.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: Ho, ho, ho, Hosanna, ho, ho.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well she'll do it at the end.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: I say Hosanna, you say Hosanna in the highest, all right?
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: Hosanna! That was great.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: It sounds like you're not actually excited about it, though.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: Hosanna! Hosanna! Even better, do you still have your palm frond somewhere?
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: Did you bend it up and pull it somewhere?
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, if you still have it, Hosanna! Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, um, I want to give a message this morning that I'm calling right but not.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to turn to the neighbor next to you and say, I want to be right.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: And I want you to turn to the other neighbor, the one you just ignored, and I want you to tell them, but I'm probably not.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: Probably not.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: Right, but not.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna go to the gospel of Mark.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: If you have your Bible, you can pull it out.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: It'll also be on the screen in many different fonts.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna go to Mark's gospel, the 11th chapter.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: Hear now the reading of God's Word.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: When Jesus and his followers approached Jerusalem, they came to Beth Page in Bethany at the Mount of Olives.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus gave two disciples a task, saying to them, Go to the village over there.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: As soon as you enter it, you'll find tied up there a colt that no one has ridden.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: Untie it and bring it here.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: And if anyone says to you, Why are you doing this?
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: say, its master needs it, and he will send it right back away.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: Then they went and they found a colt tied to a gate outside the street, and they untied it.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: Some people standing around said to them, What are you doing untying the colts?
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: They told them just what Jesus said, and they left them alone.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: They they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their clothes upon it, and he sat on it.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: Many people spread out their clothes on the road, while others spread branches cut from the fields.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: And those in front of him and those following were shouting, Hosanna, blessings on the one who comes in the name of the Lord.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: Blessings on the coming kingdom of our ancestor David.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: Hosanna in the highest.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: Hosanna?
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: And after he looked around at everything, because it was already late in the evening, he returned to Bethany with the twelve.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: Let's pray over the preaching of God's word.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: Oh God, your word is a lamp into our feet, and it's a light into our path.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: May it speak to us and speak through us for the establishment of your kingdom.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: Oh God, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of all of our hearts be acceptable in your sight and in your sight alone, O God.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: You are our rock, you're our redeemer, you're our Hosanna.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: We love you because you first loved us.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: And we pray this in your name.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: Let me start with one premise.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: It is possible to be right and still miss the point.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: You ever argued with somebody like that?
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: You ever argue with somebody like that?
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like if they were not going to point to technicalities.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: If you haven't, you haven't been on Facebook in a while.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: Because it is possible to be right and completely miss the point.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'm guilty of it, you're guilty of it.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: You might have your principles and your values undergirded, and you are there and yet the way in which you approached it was wrong.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: I've dealt with a lot of pastors in the past who have uh had to come to me or we've talked in certain situations in which they had to apologize later, not because of what they said, but because of how they said it, right?
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: It is possible to be right and yet still miss the point.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_00: We live in a world in which you are called by the culture to be right all the time.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: And let me just invite you to open your minds to see that it is possible to be right and still miss the point.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: You can look right, you can sound right, you can feel right, and still miss or not completely understand exactly what's going on.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: Eli's gonna hate me for this.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: He already saw it.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: I told him ahead of time.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but I can't think of any better example of the absurdity of this.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, for those of you who know me, I'm never gonna turn down an opportunity to watch The Office in Worship.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_00: And so this clip just it hits me.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_02: Straight.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_02: Well for six last chance of the owner's country club.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_02: Other side of the leg from the southeast side.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, this would work.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_01: Everything I had died, but nothing.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: That does sometimes, you know.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_01: You lose everything, and it falls apart, and eventually you die.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_02: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, no, no, no, no.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_02: It means bare right.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: No, it's a right.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_01: So can't go right.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_02: No, no, no, no, no, look.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_02: It means go up to the right, bare right, over the bridge, and hook up with three of us.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe it's back twice.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe we're right.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_02: It can't mean that.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: Remain calm.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_00: I have to pray for that.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_00: The level of defeat on his face.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_00: It just um my one of my heroes, Steve Jobs, always says that for every situation in life, there's either a Bob Dylan quote or a Beatles song.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I feel the same way about The Office.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like, for every single thing, there's like some sort of reference in there.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's absurd and it's dumb, and it's a little cringe.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'll give you that.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: It is possible to be right and still miss the point.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: The machine was right, the machine knows, he says.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's right.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_00: What happens in the Palm Sunday narrative is that the crowds have gathered to declare who Jesus is verbally, they're going to declare Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: They're saying all the right things, but they miss the point.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: So I want to go through this a little bit to talk about what Hosanna means.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: So, first and foremost, Hosanna is a reference to uh a word that's used in the Psalms, and it describes Jesus saving us.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: So, what they're doing is they're in when he's entering into the city, they're declaring Jesus save us.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: Just put that on your lips.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus save us.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, it sounds like you don't need to be saved.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just telling you, all of us do.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus save us.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus save us.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, this is a declaration that they're having.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's a it's a praise, it's a welcome.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: We now use it as a way of saying, Praise God, praise God.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_00: And yet, just like them, we also miss the point often about who Jesus is, too.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: You see, what's happening is Jesus is riding in on a donkey, and they're saying, Jesus, save us from the powers in the world, save us from the oppression, save us from all that we need, saving from.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, Jesus, save us, save us, save us, save us.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: They are perhaps predicting, perhaps calling on him to be a king, like a like a better king than they had before.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: Because they tried it before that didn't that sucked, you know, they weren't good.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: And so let's get another king.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: And what's true about this guy is that he's riding in not to take a throne on the on the earth at least, he's riding in to take a cross.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_00: If you've been with us in Bible study studying Luke's gospel, we talk all the time about the upside-down kingdom, the nature in which Jesus is flipping the world upside down.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's true here too.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: Let me put it to you another way.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: It is possible to praise Jesus and still not actually understand him.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_00: I would actually say that this might be true of most of the modern church today.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: Most of what you see in the modern church, including ourselves, in which we might come to a service and we declare the things and we raise our hands and we sing these songs, and we we even come to the communion table, we even take notes during during Bible study or during sermon, whatever.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: We we can praise Jesus and still completely miss the point.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: I would even maybe say it in another way.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's possible to know about the Lord and not know the Lord.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_00: Man, I went to seminary with a few people like that.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_00: They like knew it, but they didn't.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: They knew it here, but they didn't know it here.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I feel the same way.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: I actually don't think this is something we're reading into the story at all.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: I actually think it's kind of subtly there in the text.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so what I want to do is go back through uh Mark's passage here in chapter 11.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna start in verse one.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_00: When Jesus and his followers approached Jerusalem, they came to Bethpage in Bethany at the Mount of Olives.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus gave two of his disciples a task, saying to them, Go into the village over there, and as soon as you enter it, you will find tied up there a cult.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_00: C O L T, a cult that no one has ridden.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: Untie it and bring it here.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_00: And if anyone says to you, Why are you doing this?
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: Which I imagine if you're trying to steal their animal, they would say its master needs it, and he will send it back right away.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: So just stopping here for a second.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: This detail alone is strange, showing the upside down nature of it, because kings and queens don't enter into a city on a donkey, they just don't.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_00: Let me give you an example.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: I had this awesome opportunity.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, few, what did we go, December, where a bunch of us went up to visit a seminary in Washington, DC.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: And when we were there, uh I had a friend who, and I need you, can we can we just all agree for a second?
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: Can we just set aside politics for a second?
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: Because I'm gonna mention things that you're like, uh just set those aside right now.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: Just the media is not in this room, okay.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: We went to the West Wing because she works from a former student of mine, works in the West Wing.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: And when you get invited to go to the West Wing, would you go to the West Wing?
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: Of course.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_00: When she says, Well, I don't know what we can do, but like I could give you a late night personal tour at 9:45 p.m.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: of the West Wing.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, sign us up.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like, how do I get Secret Service clearance, right?
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: And so we uh we go to the West Wing.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_00: There's a picture of this, it's down further in there, Hannah, because I kind of screwed up the slides.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, this is us in the West Wing.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, that's SEALs over there.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: Seals look so good in a tie.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_00: Can I just say that?
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh uh Seals and Kara and me and EJ and Howie, and we all this was us in this is not like a stage, this is the actual press briefing room uh where you see the reporters yell at the people, right?
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like that's exactly where that is.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: And uh we also got an opportunity while we were there to see, well, to stand outside of the national Christmas tree lighting.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_00: And what we didn't realize is because it was kind of happening on the lawn, we didn't realize is how many roads they shut down around DC just to move the cabinet and the president and all this.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: I found out recently that when when the president gives the State of the Union address, like in the Capitol, right?
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: You've heard about the designated survivor thing before.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: But when the president gives the the State of the Union address, they actually have three different motorcades that leave in three different directions just to take him the block to the White House because they're so worried about um security and that sort of thing.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they're the amount of black SUVs that our government owns.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like it is insane, insane what it takes.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: And they're all armored and all of that sort of thing.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: First time I ever came into contact with this is when I moved to Charlotte for the summer to work at a church.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I knew exactly where I was gonna meet the guy that was giving us kind of the keys we were gonna stay in, my wife and I.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: And so we're we're on this main road and uh what this kind of center point in Charlotte and uh the church, I could see the church.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: It was like from me to that sign back there.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: It's like it was so close, and yet we were like stopped in the standstill traffic.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that stand-still traffic, you're like starting to get very curious about what's going on, right?
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: And about five minutes went by and we're like, we have not moved an inch, and about 10 minutes went by, we hadn't moved an inch, and about 15 minutes went by and we hadn't moved an inch.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: At this point, we're all getting out of the car, you know?
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we're like, is something happened?
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: Does anybody need help?
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: That sort of thing, and we're all just kind of jam-packed there, and there was an entire road that was crisscrossing the one we were on right in front of the church, right where I was going to be, and it was closed down, completely closed down.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: We're like, what's going on?
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: Turns out Joe Biden was coming through, and I found out that day that they will just close the roads for everything.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: Grace, who works in the West Wing, was telling me that she used to work for a senator.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: And she said, uh, one of the things that she hated about working for the senator is that when they want to travel, she's got to book a plane flight, and then inevitably they want to change their travel plans, and so she's got to re-book another plane flight, rebook another, and she said, What's crazy about when you work for the president is that uh the plane leaves when he leaves, and so if he wants to go, then the plane goes.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: She doesn't have to worry about rebooking travel.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: Really, really interesting to me.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, Well, how do you move him around town?
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_00: She was like, We just shut down roads, there's just and I was like, Yeah, yeah, we experienced that in the Christmas tree line.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: She's just we just shut everything down, we shut everything down, and then all of a sudden, all these police cop cars come and everything.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: It is insane what it takes to move a leader today.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: That's what it takes to move.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: The motorcade thing is crazy, and yet King of Kings and the Lord of Lords comes in on a cult, a donkey, an ass.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: Let's read Zechariah in a second.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: Why are you doing this?
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: Its master needs it and he'll send it back right away.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: They went and they found a colt tied to a gate.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus always knows what he's talking about.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's crazy.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus went, they went and found a colt tied to a gate outside the street, and they untied it.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: Some people standing around them said to them, What are you doing untying the colt?
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: Which again, normal.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, what are you doing with my animal?
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what are you doing untying the colt?
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: And they told them what Jesus had said, and then they left them alone.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: They brought the colt to Jesus and threw their clothes upon it, and he sat on it.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: And mean many people spread out their clothes on the road, while others spread branches cut from the fields, and those in front of him and those following were shouting, Hosanna! Hosanna and the highest Hosanna! Blessings is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: Blessings on the coming kingdom of our ancestor David.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: Hosanna! Yeah.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: Hosanna.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: Blessed is the coming king of our ancestor David.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: They're quoting scripture here.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: They're saying the right things.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: Save us now.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: And they're not wrong.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is the king.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: He is the one who saves.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: But can I just suggest that Palm Sunday, I think, or the triumphal entry or whatever, is not because they misunderstood his identity as a king, it's because they misunderstood his mission as a king.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: The crowd wants a king who fits their expectations.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: They've already decided what save us means.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: They want to be saved from Rome, from oppression.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: They kind of place all this responsibility for him to do that on it.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: And so they are only working within the framework, within the paradigm in which they've been given, which means that the only way to defeat a king is a king.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever heard this before?
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: The only way to fix violence is to create violence.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: The only way to stop the ways of the world is then to just do it better, bigger.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: That's the paradigm in which they were given.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: So they've already decided what save us means.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: So when they say, Blessed is the coming kingdom of David, they're expressing a hope for political power and national restoration.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: They're welcoming that king, but they expect that king who will take power and fix the situation.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: But the man comes in on a donkey, not a war horse, not a chariot, not with an army.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: He's fulfilling this passage from Zechariah.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: Rejoice greatly, daughter Zion.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: Sing aloud, daughter Jerusalem.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: Look, your king will come to you.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: He is righteous and he is victorious.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: He is humble and riding on an ass, on a colt, on the offspring of a donkey.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: They are expecting domination, and he is bringing humility.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: A couple weeks ago, I gave a sermon in which I invited you to see that none of this was ever about you in the first place.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: And let me tell you, as people, I'm in this group too, raised by a society, raised by an education system that tells you that you are the most important thing.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: This is so memey, but my parents are public school teachers.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: And how many times have they have we kind of heard this kind of meme that over the last 50 years it it went from like what is the student doing wrong to what is the teacher doing wrong?
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like there's been a shift in education with personal responsibility, things like that.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: I I love this campus.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: I love this campus, and I love your apartment, I don't love your prices, but I love the apartment complexes that you live in.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: But can we just be clear?
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: There's an apartment complex over there, and they are not the only ones that have a third floor pool with a giant LED so you can watch the games outside right at right on the side of College Street.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um the clubs and things that you all go to are insane.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like the watch the Instagrams are insane.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: Can we I can sit in my office, which is right back there, and I can order a$6 Starbucks on my phone and walk across the street and get it.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: And if you live in Azalea Magnolia, you don't even have to go outside, right?
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like that is crazy.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: Everything has been moved to cater to you.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: So you have not been given the paradigm of humility, of selflessness.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: The world has taught you something else.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: And listen, I like Starbeast too.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_00: But the world has taught you something completely different.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: So isn't it true that we could miss the point as well?
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: Really important part.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_00: And we're going to read this on Friday, by the way, at Good Friday.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: But this crowd, this crowd that's saying Hosanna.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I know, I know I've done it a few times, but that's rough, that's rough.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: Hosanna!
• 23:30
  unknown: Hosanna!
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that crowd, that same one, that same one that laid their cloaks down, the same one that's that's saying, Save us, Jesus, save us.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_00: They're the same ones that are gonna be calling crucify him on Friday.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_00: They're the same ones who are gonna be meeting him as they're saying, release Barabbas, not Jesus.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: Crucify him, crucify him, crucify him.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_00: Partially it's because Jesus did not become the king that they expected him to become.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: How many times in your life have you prayed or desired something for yourself, for something for God to move within that world?
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: And then God did not move in that way, or at least you perceived of it that way, and your anger came upon God.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: I think sometimes we can say the right things too and miss the point.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: We sing the songs, we show up, we pray, and then we put these expectations on who God is rather than listening for God to show himself to us.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: We put those expectations on.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: As long as God votes for the candidate that I vote for, as long as God sits on the right side that I sit on, as long as God gives me what I want, as long as He that God does the things that we want God to do, then we don't mind Jesus being the king, as long as he rules the way that we want him to, as long as he does the things that we want him to, then we don't mind it.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: And the truth is that the lordship of Jesus was always upside down.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: Always.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: When he came into the earth, he came into a manger.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_00: When he comes into Jerusalem, he comes on a donkey, not with a motorcade.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: A lord, a Hosanna who redefines power.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_00: He redefines the world to us, he gives us a new paradigm.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: This is a king who rules through surrender instead of control.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: Through a cross.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: He rules through sacrifice.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: He actually, very interesting to me, goes to the cross, is placed on the cross even before that mockery crown of thorns is put on him.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: The cross is first before the crown.