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That-s-Who-Riding-on-a-What-Why · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: Signs as.
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Speaker 2: Siss, it is.
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Speaker 3: Souss it all.
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Speaker 2: So so.
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Speaker 3: Size, it's ss ss and son and sons brass a cotta.
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Speaker 4: It is absolutely wonderful that we have the scriptures in
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Speaker 4: our own tongue for us to open and read at
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Speaker 4: any time, freely and often and publicly. Let's let's just
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Speaker 4: never get over that. I think so easy for us,
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Speaker 4: in a blessed place like ours, to take all of
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Speaker 4: this for granted. Just every once in a while, just
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Speaker 4: pause when you're in your home or at your apartment,
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Speaker 4: or wherever you are, when you're when you do your reading,
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Speaker 4: and just say, thank you Lord for providing us with
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Speaker 4: written instructions on how to live our lives. You've not
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Speaker 4: left it up to our feelings or the opinions of others,
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Speaker 4: or the culture of our times. You you have written
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Speaker 4: it in words that we can understand. And how wonderful
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Speaker 4: do we have various versions we can read. There are
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Speaker 4: even paraphrases that broaden our understanding. There's an amplified Bible,
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Speaker 4: there is the message, another form of rendering of the scriptures,
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Speaker 4: and some are much more literal and others are more readable.
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Speaker 4: But we have all of that available to us. And
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Speaker 4: different sized print. Isn't that great? I have giant print
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Speaker 4: in my Bible and you have yours, maybe on the
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Speaker 4: little app the whole Bible. That amazing. We're so grateful
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Speaker 4: for that. We're reading from Matthew twenty one, and we're
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Speaker 4: reading of the very first though they didn't call this
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Speaker 4: at that time the very first Palm Sunday. This is
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Speaker 4: when it originated, when Jesus came into Jerusalem in a
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Speaker 4: very unusual way. We read a bit of Matthew twenty one.
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Speaker 4: I'm reading from the New Living Translation. You're reading from
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Speaker 4: another version quite likely. And we'll work our way through
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Speaker 4: these first eleven verses so that we might ultimately understand
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Speaker 4: what they are saying, not only in that day but
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Speaker 4: in our day, which is the goal of biblical exposition.
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Speaker 4: What did it mean then and what does it mean
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Speaker 4: to us now. It's called bridging the text. We bridge
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Speaker 4: it from the first century to the twenty first. Let's
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Speaker 4: stand together for the reading of God's word. As Jesus
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Speaker 4: and the disciples approached Jerusalem, they came to the town
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Speaker 4: of beth Age on the Mount of Olives. Jesus sent
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Speaker 4: two of them on a head go into the village
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Speaker 4: over there, he said, as soon as you enter it,
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Speaker 4: you will see a donkey tied there with its colt
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Speaker 4: beside it. Untie them and bring them to me. If
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Speaker 4: anyone asks what you are doing, just say the Lord
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Speaker 4: needs them, and he will immediately let you take them.
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Speaker 4: This took place to fulfill the prophecy that said, tell
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Speaker 4: the people of Jerusalem, look, your king is coming to you.
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Speaker 4: He's humble, riding on a donkey, riding on a donkey's colt.
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Speaker 4: The two disciples did as Jesus commanded. They brought the
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Speaker 4: donk and the colt to him and threw their garments
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Speaker 4: over the colt, and he sat on it. Most of
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Speaker 4: the crowds spread their garments on the road ahead of him,
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Speaker 4: and others cut branches from the trees and spread them
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Speaker 4: on the road. Jesus was in the center of the procession,
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Speaker 4: and the people all around him were shouting, praise God
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Speaker 4: for the son of David, Blessings on the one who
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Speaker 4: comes in the name of the Lord, Praise God in
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Speaker 4: highest Heaven. The entire city of Jerusalem was in an
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Speaker 4: uproar as he entered. Who is this, they asked, and
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Speaker 4: the crowds replied it's Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.
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Speaker 4: I wondered when I first read that this past week,
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Speaker 4: if he were to come into the city, our city,
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Speaker 4: or the adjacent city of Dallas, or one of the
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Speaker 4: metroplex cities, if he were to enter, would they recognize him?
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Speaker 4: Would they know who it was we're thinking about. Please
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Speaker 4: be seated, let me, let me mention something, and then
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Speaker 4: I'll pray. When we were getting ready to build this building,
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Speaker 4: we were in the smaller multipurpose building as we first
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Speaker 4: got started here, and we were interested in the in
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Speaker 4: the culture, in the climate around us. Many see us
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Speaker 4: as being the buckle of the Bible belt. We're surrounded
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Speaker 4: by people everywhere in this area carry a Bible or
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Speaker 4: believe in the Bible, or they know Jesus.
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Speaker 3: And on and on.
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Speaker 4: So we dispatched a group of our members, younger, middle, older, alike,
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Speaker 4: with clipboards, and we had them go to the local mall,
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Speaker 4: Frisco Center, and we had them ask who is Jesus.
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Speaker 4: You would be amazed how many had no clue. They
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Speaker 4: had no clue. One man wanted to know if it
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Speaker 4: was a trick question. He asked his friend others took
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Speaker 4: a stab at it, and their answers were all over
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Speaker 4: the spectrum. Very few were able to identify Jesus, you
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Speaker 4: know what, even more so now because there are so
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Speaker 4: many more of us and so many who come who
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Speaker 4: have no clue. Truth be told, you may not be
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Speaker 4: able to fill out a three x five card answering
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Speaker 4: the question who is Jesus of Nazareth in one or
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Speaker 4: two sentences. For that reason and many others, we're so
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Speaker 4: glad you're here because we believe in Jesus and we
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Speaker 4: want to help people know him better, not in a
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Speaker 4: religious way, but in a real way, so that you
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Speaker 4: can understand how beautifully and perfectly he fits into your world,
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Speaker 4: into this world in which we live, into every culture.
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Speaker 4: And for that reason we pray and we give our gifts.
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Speaker 4: So let's pray. First off, Lord, want you to know
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Speaker 4: how much we love you. We've told you that a
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Speaker 4: number of times, but today maybe not until now, And
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Speaker 4: so right now I want to go on record and
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Speaker 4: tell you we love you. We love your son, We
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Speaker 4: love the work of your spirit as he moves among us,
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Speaker 4: encouraging and comforting and guiding and convicting, filling us with hope,
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Speaker 4: and renewing us when we're down, and refreshing us when
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Speaker 4: we're troubled, and comforting us when we're grieved. We love
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Speaker 4: your Lord, and we love your son Jesus, and we
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Speaker 4: love this book that tells us all about this. And
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Speaker 4: as you introduce him to us in various ways like today,
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Speaker 4: I pray that we will take it in and let
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Speaker 4: it land deep within us, that we might realize that
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Speaker 4: when you put these things in your book, you meant
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Speaker 4: every word of it, and you designed it to shape, strengthen,
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Speaker 4: stabilize our lives. May that be the result of today's
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Speaker 4: time together, Maybe leave impressed with you and more convinced
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Speaker 4: than ever that your word tells us the truth what
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Speaker 4: it is to have friends from Russia. Thank you for
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Speaker 4: their ministry. Thank you for their courage, Thank you for
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Speaker 4: their testimony. Thank you for all that they've endured to
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Speaker 4: serve you and to be your voice to those in
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Speaker 4: a country where so few truly know Jesus give them
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Speaker 4: a freedom from fear, great courage and determination to press on,
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Speaker 4: press on. Thank you enough, Father for the joy of giving.
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Speaker 4: We learned that joy from you, because you so loved us,
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Speaker 4: You gave us your son, and in return we so
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Speaker 4: love you. We give from our occupation, from our savings,
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Speaker 4: from our possessions. How thrilled we are to do that,
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Speaker 4: and we do so with confidence. Find favor in the
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Speaker 4: reason we give, and in the gift itself, and bless
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Speaker 4: those who cannot give today, and encourage all of us. Father,
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Speaker 4: as a result of the time together, maybe leave again
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Speaker 4: impressed with you and confident in your word. In the
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Speaker 4: name of Jesus, whom we love, to whom we give
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Speaker 4: our gifts. Today everyone said, amen. S It didn't seem
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Speaker 4: at all like Palm Sunday. In fact, no one there
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Speaker 4: thought of it as Palm Sunday, though it was Palm Sunday,
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Speaker 4: ninth of April. What an unusual day for those people
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Speaker 4: who gathered to come together, some to celebrate quietly, not
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Speaker 4: flaunting it, but down deep inside, gratefully relieved, others with
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Speaker 4: hearts breaking as a result of the long years of
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Speaker 4: bloody struggle until finally the day arrives. This was a
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Speaker 4: day where there's a mixture of humiliation and for them defeat.
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Speaker 4: Robert Edward Lee was meticulously dressed in his well pressed
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Speaker 4: gray uniform. Stars on his collar were highly polished. He
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Speaker 4: had arrived on traveler, his muscular mount. As he walked
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Speaker 4: up the steps of the McLean house and took his
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Speaker 4: place in the parlor, he looked the part of a
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Speaker 4: commanding general, deep red silk sash hanging from his waist,
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Speaker 4: with his beautiful shore by his side. You wouldn't know
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Speaker 4: by looking that he had just completed another bloody battle
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Speaker 4: and his men starving, in many of them barefoot, fighting
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Speaker 4: to the last. He's awaiting the arrival of Ulysses Simpson Grant,
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Speaker 4: Lieutenant General. He's on his way, also on horseback, a
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Speaker 4: little late. And what a contrast with General Lee fifteen
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Speaker 4: years younger, three inches shorter. Biographer Jay Winnick, in his
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Speaker 4: work April eighteen sixty five, says Lee was tall and stately,
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Speaker 4: Grant was stubby and rump. Grant arrived swordless, wearing a
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Speaker 4: private's shirt. Interestingly, one biographer said one button was in
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Speaker 4: the wrong buttonhole. His boots and trousers muddy from the ride.
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Speaker 4: His hair was uncombed and matted. He looked nothing like
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Speaker 4: the commanding general of the Union Army. As he and
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Speaker 4: Lee faced each other for the first time in two decades,
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Speaker 4: having fought in Mexico years earlier, alongside one another. But
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Speaker 4: now the fight was over. Both stood stern faced. They
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Speaker 4: had business to do at the table, and Lee surrendered
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Speaker 4: the Army of Virginia and ultimately the Confederate Army. He
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Speaker 4: expected to be taken prisoner, but was not, was in
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Speaker 4: fact treated much better than expected, even released and allowed
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Speaker 4: to return to his troops and ultimately to his home.
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Speaker 4: With head bowed, he mounted, Traveler, tipped his hat grant
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Speaker 4: in return, and slowly rode away. April nine, eighteen sixty five,
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Speaker 4: didn't seem at all like Palm Sunday. No one there
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Speaker 4: realized that before the following Easter a death would occur
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Speaker 4: that would stun the world. If you and I journey
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Speaker 4: much much further back, we will come across a scene
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Speaker 4: that in some ways was similar. It occurred in another place,
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Speaker 4: far far away, where people spoke another language, and the
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Speaker 4: circumstances were altogether different, though still a study in contrast
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Speaker 4: and talk about an unusual celebration. Some were cheering, others
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Speaker 4: were staring, Some understood, others were at a loss to
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Speaker 4: understand what this strange sight was all about. Interestingly, both
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Speaker 4: scenes whether in eighteen sixty five, or way back in
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Speaker 4: the first century. Both scenes were scenes of surrender. To
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Speaker 4: be sure, a king was entering a city back in
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Speaker 4: that first century, but what a strange entrance. There were those,
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Speaker 4: I'm sure, who expected a conquering king to arrive on
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Speaker 4: a chariot gold plated, pulled by white stallions as he
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Speaker 4: conquered the Romans and gave the Jews back their freedom.
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Speaker 4: But that was not to be. It was not a
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Speaker 4: conquering like that, for this king came.
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Speaker 3: To die.
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Speaker 4: And even in this final week called in Christian literature
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Speaker 4: Holy Week, even at the beginning of Holy Week, it
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Speaker 4: is good for us to remember why these things took
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Speaker 4: place as they did, strange, as though they seemed at
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Speaker 4: the time they made all the sense in the world.
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Speaker 4: A word about the Holy Week. First, the four Gospels
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Speaker 4: devote nearly one third of their length to the final
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Speaker 4: week of Jesus' life. Look how many chapters remain. In Matthew,
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Speaker 4: we're in chapter twenty one, and you go all the
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Speaker 4: way to twenty eight, covering one week. Only two of
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Speaker 4: the four gospels even mentioned Jesus' birth. All four offer
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Speaker 4: a page maybe a little more on the resurrection, as
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Speaker 4: powerful and important as that was. But when it comes
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Speaker 4: to his passion, his crucifixion, that single week prior to
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Speaker 4: the death of the Savior, each writer lingers over it
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Speaker 4: with attention to detail, as if to say, slow down,
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Speaker 4: slow down, read carefully, enter into this scene, don't rush.
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Speaker 4: This is mission accomplished. When he is nailed to that
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Speaker 4: cross and later raised from the tune, Read it carefully,
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Speaker 4: So we need to take our time and let the
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Speaker 4: wonder in. Christian author Philip Yancey puts it into perspective
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Speaker 4: when he writes, the simple, unadorned rendering has a grinding power,
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Speaker 4: but no miracles break in, no supernatural rescue attempts. This
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Speaker 4: is tragedy beyond Sophocles and Shakespeare. For those who came
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Speaker 4: expecting a conquering king, were they in for a surprise,
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Speaker 4: But most came not having a clue. Frankly, he prepares
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Speaker 4: for his arrival in the first three verses. According to
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Speaker 4: the narrative in Matthew twenty one, they've approached Jerusalem, and
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Speaker 4: they've come to the crest of the Mount of Olives.
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Speaker 4: When you travel to the Holy Land, you always will
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Speaker 4: visit the Mount of Olives. It is a slow rising
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Speaker 4: hillside all the way up to the crest. It's east
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Speaker 4: of Jerusalem, and so they're looking west toward the city,
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Speaker 4: the Old City. But before they begin the decline, Jesus
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Speaker 4: has instructions for his men. They are they are in
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Speaker 4: for a surprise. He has it all planned. Remember, they
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Speaker 4: have come from Jericho up to Jerusalem. Jericho eighteen hundred
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Speaker 4: feet below sea level, Jerusalem twenty three hundred feet above
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Speaker 4: sea level. The climb has been steady, thirty six hundred
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Speaker 4: feet to the crest of the Mount of Olives, and
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Speaker 4: there they stand. There's a strange twist to all of this.
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Speaker 4: Up until now, Jesus has stayed out of the limelight.
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Speaker 4: Remember remember how often he said, don't tell anyone about this,
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Speaker 4: even after an incredible healing, don't tell anyone after a
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Speaker 4: major meeting, don't share this Those who wanted to make
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Speaker 4: him king, he slipped out of their presence and hid
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Speaker 4: himself away. Lest they presume that it's time for him
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Speaker 4: to become the conquering king. That will come later, but
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Speaker 4: first he must die. The disciples, it seemed, would never
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Speaker 4: get that straight. What's interesting about this scene, and I
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Speaker 4: mentioned contrasts earlier, is that now he comes into the limelight.
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Speaker 4: It's as if he's saying to everyone, don't hold back.
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Speaker 4: Let your praise sound forth. I'll no longer hide in
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Speaker 4: the shadows. Let your words be heard by all. I'm
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Speaker 4: coming as your messiah. Look at the words he tells
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Speaker 4: his disciples. Go into the village verse two. As soon
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Speaker 4: as you enter it, you will see a donkey tied there,
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Speaker 4: with its colt beside it. Donkeys are not tall animals,
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Speaker 4: not at all the height of a horse. They're already shorter.
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Speaker 4: But a colt is even shorter than the donkey itself.
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Speaker 4: The mother of the colt, there'll be a colt standing
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Speaker 4: beside it. Untie them. You wanted both of them, Bring
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Speaker 4: them to me. If anyone ask what you're doing, just say,
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Speaker 4: look at the password. The Lord needs them. That had
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Speaker 4: to be arranged ahead of time. We're not told how
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Speaker 4: he arranged it or through who he made that arrangement.
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Speaker 4: Just if for some reason, the owner of the donkey
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Speaker 4: and the colt is resistant, just say the Lord needs them.
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Speaker 4: That's all you need to say. He will know that's
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Speaker 4: the password, and he will let you take them. Now.
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Speaker 4: Matthew is so good about this because in the middle
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Speaker 4: of a narrative, when you're in the process of seeing
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Speaker 4: things unfold and putting yourself in that scene, which we
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Speaker 4: always do when we are studying our Bibles, you come
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Speaker 4: to a place where Matthew interrupts the narrative and reminds
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Speaker 4: you this didn't just happen in a vacuum. It didn't.
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Speaker 4: It just didn't happen to be the first day of
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Speaker 4: Holy Week. It didn't just happen there on this at
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Speaker 4: this site. It all is a fulfillment of scripture. Matthew writes,
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Speaker 4: this took place to fulfill the prophecy. By the way,
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Speaker 4: one of the ways we know God's Word is God's
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Speaker 4: Word is the prophecy fulfilled within the time of the
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Speaker 4: writing of God's Word. Let me say it again. One
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Speaker 4: of the ways we have the assurance of the inerrancy
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Speaker 4: of scripture is that prophecies made during the days of
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Speaker 4: scripture are sometimes fulfilled within the same days that the
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Speaker 4: scriptures are being written. Here's a case in point. Matthew
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Speaker 4: is quoting from a prophet. Now hold your place here
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Speaker 4: and we'll be right go back to Zechariah. I'm gonna
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Speaker 4: watch how many of you know where to go? When
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Speaker 4: I say Zechariah, well, you know it's the Old Testament.
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Speaker 4: Having a little fun with you. It's the next to
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Speaker 4: last book of the Old Testament. Hey, yah, Zachariah Malachi.
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Speaker 4: This is Zechariah chapter nine, verse nine. This is the
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Speaker 4: exact prophecy that will be fulfilled. We are going back.
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Speaker 4: Get this five hundred years, five hundred years before the
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Speaker 4: moment recorded in Matthew twenty one. We go back to
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Speaker 4: the writing prophet Zechariah, chapter nine, verse nine. Let's see
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Speaker 4: what he says, I will guard my temple and protect
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Speaker 4: it from invading armies. That's a nice verse, but it's
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Speaker 4: not verse nine. Go down to verse nine. It helps
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Speaker 4: if you can read. Rejoice, people of Zion, shout in triumph.
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Speaker 4: Ol o, people of Jerusalem. Look look at this five
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Speaker 4: hundred years earlier. Look, your king is coming to you.
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Speaker 4: He is righteous and victorious. Yet he is humble, writing
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Speaker 4: on a donkey, writing on a donkey's colt. Now, for
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Speaker 4: just a moment, before you go back, put yourself in
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Speaker 4: Zechariah's place. Don't you think he wondered, what in the
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Speaker 4: world am I writing? And why am I writing something
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Speaker 4: like that? You see when they are under the unction
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Speaker 4: of the spirit of God. Prophets would sometimes write not
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Speaker 4: knowing fully the meaning of what they are writing, but
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Speaker 4: they are writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, God,
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Speaker 4: who has a full panoramic view of all of time
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Speaker 4: and beyond, from eternity past to return to the future.
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Speaker 4: Has pinpointed the Zechariah nine to nine statement with the
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Speaker 4: fulfillment of it in Matthew twenty one. So I just
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Speaker 4: want you to see where it was written Zachariah nine.
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Speaker 4: So let's go back to Matthew twenty one. And Matthew
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Speaker 4: runs ahead and says, this may look like it was
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Speaker 4: a spontaneous moment, It wasn't that at all. It was
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Speaker 4: all part of the fulfillment of prophecy. Tell the people
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Speaker 4: of Jerusalem. Look, your king is coming to sound familiar.
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Speaker 4: He's exactly what we read in Zachariah. Your King is
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Speaker 4: coming to you. He's humble, riding on a donkey, riding
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Speaker 4: on a donkey's colt. I pause. I'll give you a
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Speaker 4: moment to picture it in your mind. One of the
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Speaker 4: best things you can do while reading your Bible is
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Speaker 4: to pause and let the picture in. Most of us
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Speaker 4: had been on horseback. I doubt that most of us
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Speaker 4: have ever ridden a donkey. I know some of you have,
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Speaker 4: but it's doubtful any of you have ever ridden the
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Speaker 4: colt of a donkey. And this is a colt, of course,
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Speaker 4: that's never been broken unless Jesus is riding. And by
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Speaker 4: the way, how tall would that be? Just a few
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Speaker 4: feet off the ground. Jesus' feet would have dragged in
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Speaker 4: the dust of the road, maybe even his knees. Picture it,
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Speaker 4: He's sitting on the back of this colt of a donkey.
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Speaker 4: What a lowly, humble scene as Jesus coming into Jerusalem
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Speaker 4: as a king. Where's the chariot, Where are the stallions?
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Speaker 4: Where are the guards out front shouting balvany, balvany? They're
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Speaker 4: not there. This isn't that kind of entrance. This isn't
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Speaker 4: an entrance of surrender, of submission, of humility, something we
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Speaker 4: rarely connect with the king. It's the fulfillment of a prophecy,
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Speaker 4: and Jesus is fulfilling it rotting on the back of
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Speaker 4: a colt. There's more. Keep reading. The two disciples did
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Speaker 4: as Jesus commanded. They brought the donk in the cold
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Speaker 4: to him, threw their garment over the colt, and he
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Speaker 4: set on it. Most of the crowds spread their garments
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Speaker 4: on the road ahead of him. Others here's where Palm
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Speaker 4: Sunday comes in. Cut palms or cut branches from the
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Speaker 4: trees and spread them on the road. This was out
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Speaker 4: of respect for the one coming. Jesus was in the
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Speaker 4: center of the procession, and the people all around him
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Speaker 4: were shouting. Look at what they were shouting. This is
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Speaker 4: a spontaneous shout.
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Speaker 3: Or was it?
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Speaker 4: Look Praise God for the son of David. Blessings on
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Speaker 4: the one who comes in the name of the Lord.
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Speaker 4: Praise God in the highest Heaven. I don't know if
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Speaker 4: your Bible is so marked, but mine has a different
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Speaker 4: font when I get to that verse here in verse nine,
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Speaker 4: which tells me that it is a quotation. When I
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Speaker 4: trace the quotation, you know where I wind up. Let
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Speaker 4: me show you. Go back, not to Zechariah, go back
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Speaker 4: to the Psalms way back to Psalm one eighteen, verses
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Speaker 4: twenty five and twenty five, because that will be exactly
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Speaker 4: what is being said by the crowd as Jesus enters
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Speaker 4: on the donkey. Look at verse twenty four. Learn by
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Speaker 4: the way, when you studying your Bible to go from
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Speaker 4: one passage to another, to fill in the things that
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Speaker 4: one section of one passage will not complete. You want
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Speaker 4: to see it all. Psalm one, eighteen verses twenty four
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Speaker 4: and twenty five. This is the day the Lord has made.
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Speaker 4: I'm reading from Psalm one eighteen twenty four. This is
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Speaker 4: the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and
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Speaker 4: be glad in it. Now look closely, you see it,
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Speaker 4: Psalm one eighteen twenty four and twenty five. The reason
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Speaker 4: I had you turn is because these are the words
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Speaker 4: that are spoken by those who recognize him as he
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Speaker 4: comes into the city. Please Lord, please save us, Please Lord,
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Speaker 4: please give us success. Blessed is the one who comes
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Speaker 4: in the name of the Lord. We will bless you
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Speaker 4: from the house of the Lord. The Lord is God
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Speaker 4: shining upon us. And further it goes on. But I
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Speaker 4: wanted you to see, Lord save us. Ho hianna sanna.
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Speaker 4: We get our word ho sannah from that. It means
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Speaker 4: save Now. Now, I'm sure when the psalmist wrote this
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Speaker 4: is the psalm identified. I don't see an identity. Whoever
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Speaker 4: the psalmist was that wrote this. You wonder if he
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Speaker 4: had some concept of where it would wind up where
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Speaker 4: it would be said. But the very thing he writes
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Speaker 4: is being stated by those who are witnessing Jesus coming
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Speaker 4: in on the back of the cult. The footnote from
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Speaker 4: the net Bible reads the underlying Aramaic and Hebrew expression meant,
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Speaker 4: O Lord save us, in words familiar to every Jew.
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Speaker 4: The author is indicating that at this very point, every
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Speaker 4: Messianic expression expectation is now at the point of realization.
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Speaker 4: It is clear from the words of the psalm shouted
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Speaker 4: by the crowd that Jesus is being proclaimed as Messianic king.
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Speaker 4: It is the fulfillment of the Messianic statement, and they
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Speaker 4: are making the statement in honor of Jesus himself. He's
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Speaker 4: fulfilling that prophecy. Praise God in highest Heaven. This is
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Speaker 4: a great moment, by the way, it's a courageous moment,
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Speaker 4: for Jesus is wanted in our in our terms today.
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Speaker 4: His picture is in every post office. Uh the he's
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Speaker 4: he's not. He could have hidden out and come in
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Speaker 4: some back road, but he doesn't. He not only enters
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Speaker 4: from the height of Mount Olive, the Mount of Olives,
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Speaker 4: he enters in a way that no one can miss.
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Speaker 4: He's a man sitting on the back of a the
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Speaker 4: colt of a donkey, and the crowd of followers. Don't
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Speaker 4: forget the two blind men who have been healed. Remember
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Speaker 4: last time we were together. They're in the crowd. They're
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Speaker 4: there shouting, they're praising God. They were he was living
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Speaker 4: out the fulfillment of that prophecy. What a great moment.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna pause here and let us take a breath,
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Speaker 4: and let me tell you give you a page out
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Speaker 4: of my own journal. I do that. I use my
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Speaker 4: story because I don't know yours. If I did, maybe
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Speaker 4: yours would be far better than mine. But I'm going
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Speaker 4: to use mine. I know in measure something of what
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Speaker 4: that must have felt like, And that needs an explanation
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Speaker 4: because I'm certainly not in that category of one to
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Speaker 4: be praised. But I do understand what it must feel
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Speaker 4: like to live to the point of something being fulfilled.
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Speaker 4: I was raised in a very modest home. As I recall,
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Speaker 4: our little place in East Houston on Quent Street cost
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Speaker 4: my folks not even six thousand dollars, and it was
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Speaker 4: a house that was built on blocks. Some of you
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Speaker 4: know what that means, and it was it had asked
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Speaker 4: best of sighting, that'll date it, won't it. And we
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Speaker 4: had three little bedrooms and we had a one bath,
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Speaker 4: tiny bath. We had a little kitchen, and we had
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Speaker 4: a dining living room combined in the front porch that
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Speaker 4: we screened in after we had moved in, and a
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Speaker 4: little slab was called a three bedroom with one bath
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Speaker 4: and a slab the little ribbon driveway that you drove in.
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Speaker 4: If you stayed on the ribbon, you drove in and
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Speaker 4: you got to the concrete slab where you parked your car.
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Speaker 4: That was where I grew up. My older brother, Orbald,
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Speaker 4: my older sister Lucy, and I grew up there in
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Speaker 4: our younger years, our teenage years and a little beyond.
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Speaker 4: My mother never was employed outside the home, and my
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Speaker 4: father was a very diligent laborer and was a part
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Speaker 4: of the war machine. He was a little too old
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Speaker 4: for the draft and so very patriotic. We were there
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Speaker 4: through the war, et cetera. World War Two. And my mother,
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Speaker 4: you have to understand how she was put together. She
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Speaker 4: really loved the Lord and she really wanted us kids
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Speaker 4: to love the Lord. Well, the first part was working
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Speaker 4: for her, but the last part was a little later
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Speaker 4: coming not from my brother. He loved Jesus when he
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Speaker 4: was in the womb, but that's another subject.
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Speaker 3: And I.
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Speaker 4: Didn't. And so I'm getting ready to go out and
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Speaker 4: play sand Loote football. I must have been eleven twelve
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Speaker 4: years old, and I'm running through the kitchen and my
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Speaker 4: mother says, Charles, come here. I want to show you something.
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Speaker 4: And I could kind of feel a mother's sermon coming
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Speaker 4: on and I didn't want to really sit through it
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Speaker 4: or stand through it, and I said, mother, I can
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Speaker 4: do it later when I come back. She said, no,
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Speaker 4: you're going to come here right now. I want to
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Speaker 4: show you what the Lord gave me, and it has
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Speaker 4: you in mine. I thought, oh brother, what's this going
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Speaker 4: to be? And I stood there and was kind of
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Speaker 4: tossing the ball up in the air. She said, stand
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Speaker 4: still and listen to me. So I did, and she
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Speaker 4: said I've been reading in Proverbs and I found the
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Speaker 4: verse for you. And I thought, oh brother, what verse
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Speaker 4: is that going to be? She said, it's Proverbs eighteen sixteen.
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Speaker 4: She had written it out on a little four x
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Speaker 4: six card and she had taped it on the wall
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Speaker 4: in front of the sink. It read a Man's gift
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Speaker 4: makes room for him and brings him before great men.
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Speaker 4: I thought, that's great, Mom. Can I go? And she
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Speaker 4: said no, I'm going to tell you what this what
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Speaker 4: the Lord has told me about this. And I go, Mom, uh,
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Speaker 4: you know all the guys are waiting out there for
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Speaker 4: She said. Listen to me. She said, I believe that
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Speaker 4: the Lord is going to use you in ways that
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Speaker 4: we would never ever guess. And I thought, that's great, Mom,
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Speaker 4: I hope he does. And or we threw She said,
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Speaker 4: listen to me. When you are older, you will realize
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Speaker 4: that God is fulfilling this in your life. So I
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Speaker 4: kind of tilted my head and I read it again.
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Speaker 4: A man's gift makes room for him, whatever that meant,
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Speaker 4: and brings him before great men. In light of our
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Speaker 4: little home and our little modest growing up years. Great
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Speaker 4: people didn't register with me, and it meant a lot
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Speaker 4: to her, as I recalled, shed tears in her eyes,
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Speaker 4: and she said, put her arms around me, and she said,
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Speaker 4: I want you to know I'm claiming this for you. Well,
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Speaker 4: it's hard to know what to say after that, especially
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Speaker 4: with the prophetess standing over their arm around you. And
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Speaker 4: I said, that's great, mom, claiming are we through? And
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Speaker 4: she didn't like that response, and I left and I thought,
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Speaker 4: old brother, why couldn't I have just a normal mother
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Speaker 4: that just fixes a meal and we eat and do
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Speaker 4: the dishes and go on. But I've got I've got,
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Speaker 4: you know, missus Martin Luther as a mother here And anyway,
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Speaker 4: she met well, she really met well, and she knew
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Speaker 4: what she was talking about. Well, let me cut to
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Speaker 4: the chase, because this time is moving on. I want
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Speaker 4: you to know how that unfolded in my life. I
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Speaker 4: would have never guessed how the grace of God would work.
53:48
Speaker 4: And I want to say this before I go any further,
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Speaker 4: and I'll say more next time. On mother's I want
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Speaker 4: to say to you mothers, don't hold back. God gives
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Speaker 4: you wonderful things. And you have your little family or
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Speaker 4: maybe a large number of family member as he leads you,
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Speaker 4: you're to share with them what he gives you. It'll
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Speaker 4: make a difference. Time passed. I got out of school
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Speaker 4: and wound up going to the Marine Corps. All of
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Speaker 4: you know, well, I got married. I almost forgot that.
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Speaker 4: We got married, and we married really young. And in
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Speaker 4: those days when you finished school, you had a military obligation.
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Speaker 4: So I wound up, of all things, going to the
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Speaker 4: island of Okinawa. And here I am in the Marine Corps,
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Speaker 4: eight thousand miles from home, not even thinking about that verse,
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Speaker 4: and through a series of very interesting events, I wind
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Speaker 4: up in the third division and banned. And it allows
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Speaker 4: me some free time. Or I am able to be
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Speaker 4: mentored by a representative from the Navigators, which is a
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Speaker 4: real benefit in my growing up as a Christian. And
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Speaker 4: then as I finished my time in the Corps, I
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Speaker 4: say to my mentor, I think God may be leading
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Speaker 4: me into ministry. Can you believe that? And he said,
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Speaker 4: of course. I said, I think I might, even even
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Speaker 4: though I'm not qualified. I think I might even try
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Speaker 4: to go to Dallas Seminary. And so I wasn't qualified
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Speaker 4: to go there. I didn't have all the the you know,
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Speaker 4: great academic background to do that. So I applied, and
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Speaker 4: I remember sent and I were sitting in front of
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Speaker 4: doctor Campbell in his office as a registrary. He said,
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Speaker 4: we're going to accept you on probation, and I thought,
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Speaker 4: that's banned testing. I'll do anything. Probation sounding good to me,
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Speaker 4: and I started, and amazingly remember the grace of God.
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Speaker 4: I did fairly well, and I got through first year
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Speaker 4: and it took me off of probation, and then I
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Speaker 4: in the middle of my four years there, I had
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Speaker 4: the privilege of being mentored by Ray Stedman. Not in
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Speaker 4: Palo Alto, California, another period of growth and learning. We
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Speaker 4: had babies in the process of time there, and I
56:39
Speaker 4: serve alongside doctor Pentecost as an assistant pastor for a while.
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Speaker 4: And then I go to New England. I'm there little church,
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Speaker 4: and then I come to Irving and I'm there and
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Speaker 4: wind up ultimately going to California. I'm almost through with this,
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Speaker 4: so bear with me, and every place, little by little,
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Speaker 4: I'm witnessing the grace of God in my life. So
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Speaker 4: while in California, of all things, though I never dreamed
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Speaker 4: I would ever do it, I wrote a little book,
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Speaker 4: and of all things, it got published, and there were
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Speaker 4: a few people who wanted to read it. And that's
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Speaker 4: what an author likes, is to have people read what
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Speaker 4: you write. And then they want to know if I'd
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Speaker 4: write another one. I thought I'd already written and that
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Speaker 4: or not. They said no, And I learned that publishers
57:33
Speaker 4: have an insatiable have it and they want more, and
57:38
Speaker 4: I began to write more, and then we wanted the radio,
57:41
Speaker 4: and before long God was blessing the socks off of me.
57:50
Speaker 4: And I mean to tell you, remember my roots, remember
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Speaker 4: this background. All of this is a surprise to me.
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Speaker 4: None of this is choreographed by me. My life is
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Speaker 4: not the fulfillment of some great dream. My life is
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Speaker 4: one surprise after another to this day. Well, in the
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Speaker 4: middle of all of this, I get invited to a
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Speaker 4: very special gathering by the Christian Embassy in Washington, d C.
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Speaker 4: And I'd been invited before, but this group was going
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Speaker 4: to be different. There was a large number of high
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Speaker 4: ranking officers from the Pentagon. We're talking colonels in generals.
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Speaker 4: There was be a group of ambassadors with their families.
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Speaker 4: There would be there would be statesmen and women. There
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Speaker 4: was even a Cabinet member that came. This was in
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Speaker 4: the Reagan era, and of all things, they had asked
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Speaker 4: me to speak, and Bill and Bonnett Bright were there.
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Speaker 4: They had started Christian Embassy, and I realized there were
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Speaker 4: going to be about eight hundred people or more in
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Speaker 4: this gathering of great men and women. And that afternoon,
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Speaker 4: as I am going through my Bible, thinking through what
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Speaker 4: I want to say. That night, I come across Proverbs
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Speaker 4: eighteen sixty that is circled and by now my mothers did,
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Speaker 4: but her words live on. And I suddenly realized, as
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Speaker 4: this chill goes up my back, that I am living
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Speaker 4: the fulfillment of what she had claimed, a statement that
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Speaker 4: had been given to me when I wasn't even interested
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Speaker 4: and thought I would never ever care about it. I
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Speaker 4: am now living it. I'm telling you all of this
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Speaker 4: to say each one of us is engaged in life,
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Speaker 4: and there are those moments where God brings about a
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Speaker 4: fulfillment of something he has planned for years for us,
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Speaker 4: and how great it is when we pause and give
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Speaker 4: him thanks praise for what he has done. And I
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Speaker 4: remember standing up and I had to kind of choked
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Speaker 4: back the tears as I got started thinking who am
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Speaker 4: I to talk to these great men and women? And
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Speaker 4: I realize I am a recipient of God's grace. That's
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Speaker 4: what I am.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 4: In Jesus' case, he is the fulfillment of the prophecy.
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Speaker 4: And as he comes into the city, there were those
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Speaker 4: who must have thought, this is it, this is the moment.
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Speaker 4: We've read this in the prophet's writings. We have read
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Speaker 4: this from the Psalm. There it is, this is happening.
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Speaker 4: There were some who said this, but not all. Look
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Speaker 4: at the response for the entire city. Verse ten of
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Speaker 4: Jerusalem was in an uproar as he entered, and some said,
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Speaker 4: who is this? Some didn't have a clue, And the
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Speaker 4: crowds replied that this is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth
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Speaker 4: and Galilee. They could identify where he's from, they knew
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Speaker 4: of him. They weren't necessarily believers in him. They said,
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Speaker 4: this is a prophet. You've heard of him. He's been
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Speaker 4: traveling all over. But much of it they didn't get.
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Speaker 4: And these praises are coming from spontaneously from the crowd,
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Speaker 4: and they're praising the son of David, and praising God
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Speaker 4: for the son and giving him the messianic title. If
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Speaker 4: you will, well, let me tell you who knew what
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Speaker 4: they were talking about, and they hated it. Turn from
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Speaker 4: here to Luke chapter nineteen, Luke nineteen. Okay, let me
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Speaker 4: show you who they were. Luke nineteen thirty nine. Some
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Speaker 4: of the pharisees, these are the people who put his
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Speaker 4: face in the post office. These are the ones who
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Speaker 4: hate him. Who want to see him on a cross.
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Speaker 4: They want to see him dead. The last thing they
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Speaker 4: want is for him to be extolled as the Messiah.
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Speaker 4: Some of the Pharisees among the crowd said, Teacher, the
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Speaker 4: word is Rabbi. Rabbi, rebuke your followers for saying things
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Speaker 4: like that. They're declaring your messiah. Tell them to be
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Speaker 4: quiet and look at Jesus. Respond this is one of
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Speaker 4: his great your face moments. I love moments like this
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Speaker 4: where he puts them in their place. He replies, why
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Speaker 4: if they kept quiet, the stones along the road would
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Speaker 4: burst into chears, the rocks would sing out. It's the
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Speaker 4: first reference to a rock concert right here in the
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Speaker 4: Gospel of Luke, verse thirty nine, verse forty. He says,
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Speaker 4: I can't silence them. This is exactly as God planned it.
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Speaker 4: The Pharisees are again put in their place. I'm back
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Speaker 4: to Matthew twenty one, and we're threw where are you
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Speaker 4: in this? Where are you in that crowd? Or are
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Speaker 4: are you putting a garment on the colt As a
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Speaker 4: close follower of Jesus, By the way, to the people
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Speaker 4: you work with, know how close you follow Jesus that's
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Speaker 4: where the rubber meets the road. You in that group,
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Speaker 4: are you like those who line in the street and
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Speaker 4: today say you're the one? But if you check the record,
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Speaker 4: you go all the way to Matthew twenty seven, you
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Speaker 4: find they're the same ones who later said, crucify him,
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Speaker 4: crucify him. Fickle crowd that they are. Perhaps you're like
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Speaker 4: those who ask who is he? Who is this Jesus
1:04:34
Speaker 4: I keep hearing about. Maybe that's what drew you to
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Speaker 4: this place at this time, Or to be blunt about it,
1:04:44
Speaker 4: you may be like the Pharisees. You may find yourself
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Speaker 4: rather cynical saying he's not who they claimed he was.
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Speaker 4: You've been taught otherwise. But the truth is he is.
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Speaker 4: There is one and only one response that is appropriate
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Speaker 4: to the one who has come to conquer our lives,
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Speaker 4: and that is surrender. It's the one response that does
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Speaker 4: not come naturally to any of us, because we were
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Speaker 4: all taught to fight our way through life, to defend ourselves,
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Speaker 4: to take charge. And he comes on the back of
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Speaker 4: a cult in this lowly manner, and especially to those
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Speaker 4: of us who are strong of heart, how necessary it is.
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Speaker 4: I checked websters, and surrender means to relinquish possession or
1:05:59
Speaker 4: can control of to another as a result of demand
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Speaker 4: or compulsion. That's my message to all of us. If
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Speaker 4: you learn nothing else, I hope you will learn the
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Speaker 4: value of relinquishing control of your personal life. This is
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Speaker 4: what my mother wanted me to learn, and it took
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Speaker 4: me half a lifetime to discover it. God has a
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Speaker 4: plan is to use you in ways that you could
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Speaker 4: not even guess and would never have expected. But when
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Speaker 4: you surrender to his plan, he will take you to
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Speaker 4: places you would never dream and use you in ways
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Speaker 4: you could never ever predict. I'd like us to bow
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Speaker 4: together before I pray. I speak to you who are
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Speaker 4: in need of surrendering. There's an old song, all to Jesus.
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Speaker 4: I surrender all to Him. I freely give. When we
1:07:21
Speaker 4: speak of coming to know Christ, we're talking about that,
1:07:27
Speaker 4: and I urge you to do that right now. There's
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Speaker 4: never been a time in your life where you have
1:07:34
Speaker 4: told the Lord Jesus Christ, I want you to take
1:07:38
Speaker 4: over my life. Now's the time to do that. There's
1:07:43
Speaker 4: much to learn, but this is the place to begin,
1:07:47
Speaker 4: and you learn it here. It's amazing what it will
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Speaker 4: do to you or for you as a man, as
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Speaker 4: a woman, as a father or mother, as an employee,
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Speaker 4: as a CEO, as a friend. Trust in the Lord
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Speaker 4: Jesus Christ. Right now you will begin to know dimensions
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Speaker 4: of life you have never discovered before. You're surrounded by
1:08:23
Speaker 4: people who could give you their story and tell you
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Speaker 4: about it. Would love to help you in that journey
1:08:31
Speaker 4: if we can, in any way, Please ask us to
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Speaker 4: do that. Thank you, Father for the privilege of entering
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Speaker 4: into a scene that seems so remote to us today.
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Speaker 4: We simply don't see such humility. We don't witness it
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Speaker 4: among the great leaders that often we're around, and arrogance
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Speaker 4: so much we began to take that for granted. But
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Speaker 4: show us today, Lord, the value of humbling ourselves before
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Speaker 4: the mighty hand of our heavenly Father, that you may
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Speaker 4: exalt us whenever you please, and however you please. Thank you,
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Speaker 4: Father for taking over our lives at those points when
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Speaker 4: we least expected you to do so. Thank You for
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Speaker 4: the gracious way you have led us, often in spite
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Speaker 4: of ourselves and sometimes against our own wishes. Thank You
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Speaker 4: for breaking us and leaving us in a place of
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Speaker 4: such need so that we surrender naturally. Today is that day,
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Speaker 4: help those who need to do that to do so.
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Speaker 4: I can meet each one one to you now in
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Speaker 4: the precious name of Jesus, our Master or Savior. Everyone said, Amen. Amen.
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