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Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church.

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Good morning, Life House. It's Palm Sunday. Come on, get that palm branch out. Just wave it at me

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a little bit. Fan your neighbors for a second. They look a little warm. Yeah, yeah. Palm Sunday.

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Thank you. It's always good to put something in somebody's hand, right? A little reminder

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of what the day is all about. Can we pray? I just want to start this message off praying,

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shifting gears in our hearts and in our minds to just really get into the Word of God. Father,

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we thank you for this day, for your glory, for your honor. Lord, we come, and Lord, we just

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praise you. We give you glory. I thank you for your presence. We felt so strong this morning.

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And Lord, God, just continue to work in our hearts. God, I know you're already speaking

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and ministering to people. And Lord, just continue today, Lord, during the rest of this gathering.

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And Lord, God, as we go out this week, Lord, in the highways and the hedges and God to our

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places of employment, God, just pray you just move and Lord that we would apply everything that's

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spoken through your Word to us, God, in our week. And we just give you glory and praise.

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And everybody said together. Amen. Amen. Hey, got a question for you. How many heard the wind

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last night? Yeah. How many got how many got shaken, rattled and rolled just a little bit?

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We live up on a hill, just a little bit of a knob. And man, it was just blowing. We heard things

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shaking a little bit. And I got about an hour in. How many know when you get about an hour into sleep?

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I don't know. I haven't. I didn't look this up, but I call it. That's when the REM sleep restarts,

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right? You're seriously into some sleep and about an hour in. I don't know what got knocked over.

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I can't I can not confirm whether it was inside outside. What happened? But you ever hear one of

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those things where just went boom in the middle of the night and you just hop out of bed, right?

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You're just like, huh? Right. Heart rate goes up. Adrenaline starts pumping. You're like,

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what's going on? Or somebody in the house or the outside of the house? I mean,

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does anybody else's brain go like that when you get up like that? Like you get. Yeah. My brain's

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going 100 mile an hour. And then I couldn't go back to sleep. It was nothing right. It was just

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the way I couldn't get back to sleep. But it was a storm yesterday. And it was interesting because

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it was beautiful weather. And as the evening came, I watched as the clouds kind of swirled

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and the wind picked up and there was this storm that was moving in and it was a storm,

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but it wasn't the perfect storm. Well, we're going into John chapter 12 today and the perfect storm

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begins to take place that is going to lead up to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. So if you got

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your Bibles, I want you to turn to John chapter 12. We're going to go to verse 12. And where this

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picks up this particular portion of scripture picks up is that Jesus is traveling to Jerusalem.

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He's with his man. He's with his followers and he's headed to Jerusalem, but he's going to go.

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He's going to get a detail. He's going to play a little detour going to Jerusalem. He goes on the

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southeast side and hits a little town called Bethany. Say Bethany. All right, about two miles

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outside of Jerusalem. He goes to Bethany and he goes there for a very specific reason because he's

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got friends there. You all do this, right? Sometimes you sidetrack, go see some friends

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and he's going to Bethany because Lazarus is there. Martha is there and Mary are there. They're a

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family and Jesus has a special relationship with his family with Lazarus in particular because of

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something that took place previous to this. Jesus and Lazarus were friends and Jesus got a call from

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Lazarus's sisters and said that he was sick and it ends up that Lazarus dies and he's four days dead.

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Okay, how many know that's expired, right? You're done. Four days you're not breathing, you're dead.

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All right, you got it. Not four minutes, four days. He's four days dead and he's in the tomb and Jesus

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shows up to where he's at and he tells him to roll the stone away from the tomb and everybody's kind

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of wondering what's going on. Now you got to think about this for a second, right? That's kind of

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like approximately like telling somebody to dig the grave back up and flip the coffin open, right?

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That's what he did and he calls Lazarus out of the tomb and Lazarus comes forth in his grave clothes,

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right? He walks out so there's this special connection between Lazarus and Jesus. I know

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there'd be a special connection to somebody who raised me from the dead, right? That'd be a special

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thing. Not many people get to say that, right? There's this special connection so he's going to

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see them and all of Bethany hears about this and all of Jerusalem hears about it. There's noise and

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there's talk and there's chatter about Lazarus, a man coming back to life and everybody's really kind

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of talking about this for different reasons. See the Jews in Bethany and the Jews in Jerusalem,

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they're all talking about this because they hear about this man Jesus and the man who has the power

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to call somebody back from the dead. He didn't have a defibrillator. He called him out of the grave,

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right? Four days gone and he calls him and they're thinking in their minds this might be the Messiah.

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This might be the leader that we've been waiting for. This might be the one who leads us and crushes

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Rome because Rome was crushing them and they're thinking this. So there's a stir going on in the

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community and there's people the Jews are wondering is this the one? Is this the Messiah? Is this the

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one that's been prophesied about for so long? The one we've been waiting on, right? And in Jerusalem

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just two miles away the chief priests and the Pharisees, the hypocritical, right? Corrupt religious

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leaders that were in Jerusalem, they're plotting, excuse me, they are convinced that Jesus is a

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heretic. They're convinced that he is demon possessed. They even say that at one point.

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They accuse him of that and they're convinced of this and they're not only upset about the whole

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thing but they're literally they feel like it's their job to get Jesus out of the way and what I

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mean by out of the way they mean out of the way, right? They're plotting his death. They're plotting

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Lazarus's death. This is all stirring. This is all happening and the Romans who were in power

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they're watching it all because they don't want an uprising of any kind. They don't want the Jews

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getting an upper order. They don't want the Pharisees and the scribes and they're watching

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the whole thing. They're keeping an eye because they're ruled. They reign and they will crush

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any kind of uprising. This is all taking place and Jesus is heading that direction and he stops

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in Bethany and while he's at Bethany for just a little while he's in the company of friends.

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He's in a home that he's familiar with. He's with people that love him and he loves them and he's

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sitting at the table. The Lord of God says he's sitting at the table. He's talking with Lazarus.

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They're having food. How many know that's a good thing to do? Amen? You all gonna do that about

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lunchtime today. Don't be thinking about that right now. He's sitting and he's eating with Lazarus

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and Martha. I don't know if you know anything about Martha but how many know there's somebody

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that's always taking care of business? How many of you take care of business? Raise your hand.

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You're the one that takes care of business. Martha was always taking care of business.

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She's feeding everybody. There's only like four of you in the house are taking care of business.

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The rest of us just said feed me. Martha she's running around. She's making sure everything's

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prepped. She's making sure the food's done. She's making sure the table's set and then there's

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Mary the other sister who's not worried about that at all. She's sitting at Jesus feet and she

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walks in and you can see this. Now I need you to get a hold of this in your head and in your spirit.

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She's sitting at Jesus feet and she breaks open a vessel of oil. A very costly vessel of oil. It

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was spiked nard and nard. It was about a little an average man's wages would have taken a year

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to pay for this ointment and she pours it on Jesus feet and in an act of humility sitting in

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his feet she takes her hair and she wipes it off with her hair. How many know that's humility right?

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That's humbleness. All this is taking place and while she's doing this one of Jesus' disciples

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who's going to betray him, Judas, he's complaining about the whole thing. He says well we could have

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sold that and given the money to the poor but the reality is A he's a traitor and B he's a thief

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and he wanted to skim the money. There's a lot happening. There's a lot stirring

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and Jesus knows he's about to go to the cross. He's about to pay for all mankind's sin and all

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this activity is swirling around him. All kind of crazy and the next day it gets even a little bit

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crazier. That's where we pick up in verse 12. John chapter 12 verse 12 says this then the next day

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say the next day. A multitude had come to the feast and when they heard that Jesus was coming

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to Jerusalem all this is taking place. They took palm branches. Grab your palm branch. I won't

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make you shake it or anything anymore but they took palm branches from the trees and they went

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out to meet him and they cried out Hosanna blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord

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the King of Israel. They began to lay the palm branches in the street. They began to throw their

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coats down. That was a sign of a king coming into the city. Then Jesus went and he found a young

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donkey sat on it as it was written. Fear not daughter of Zion behold your king is coming out

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sitting on a donkey's coat. This is prophecy being fulfilled and his disciples did not understand

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these things at first. They're kind of confused about everything that's going on. There's things

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happening. They know what's going on all around but it's not making any sense right and when Jesus

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was glorified then they remembered that these things were written about him and that they had

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done these things to him. Therefore the people who were with him when he called Lazarus out of the

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tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness for this reason the people also met him because they

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had heard that he had done this sign and the Pharisees therefore said among themselves you

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see that you're accomplishing nothing look the world has gone after him. The people are going

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out to meet him. The Pharisees think the world's chasing after him. They want to crush him right

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and now and amongst all that there were certain Greeks. Say the Greeks. The Greeks among those

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who came to worship at the feast and they came to Philip who was at Bersadia of Galilee and asked

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him saying sir we wish to see Jesus. Philip came and told Andrew this is Jesus' men right and in

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turn Andrew and Philip told Jesus. So in amongst all the things that's taking place here Jesus is

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coming in Jerusalem people and crowds are swarming there's a bunch of Greeks who want to have an

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interview all right but Jesus answered them saying the hours come and the Son of Man shall be glorified

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most assuredly I say to you unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies it remains

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alone but if it dies it produces much grain. He who loves his life will lose it and he who hates

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his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves me let him follow me and

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where I am there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me him my father will honor. Jesus is days

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away from being crucified. Some want to kill him. Some want to make him king right. Some think he's

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the Messiah. Some of them don't know what to think right. Jewish people are swarming in the street and

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a bunch of Greeks want to have an interview. They want to have an exclusive with Jesus to ask him

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questions and Jesus stops in the middle of all the chaos in the middle of all these things that are

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swirling and happening he stops and he gives a little mini sermon some of you wish and I give a

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mini sermon right. He gives a little mini sermon to his disciples. He's not paying attention to who

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wants to interview him. He's not paying attention to to everything that's swirling around him those

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who want to kill him. He says if you really want to follow me if you believe that I'm the Son of

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God if you believe that that I am the one the Messiah who is coming if you believe that I am

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savior of the world it's going to take more than just showing up with a palm branch right and shaking

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a palm branch it's going to be more than a wave. That's my interpretation. It's going to be more

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than a wave. It's going to be more than waving our branches and laying them on the street. He says

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because just a wave how many know just a wave can mean a lot of different things right. If we just

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give somebody away I just got a wave right. How many know that can mean a lot of different things?

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Eric went like this to me right. We can give away if I go like this what's that mean? Hello right.

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What if I go like this? Goodbye right. That can be super trivial. That doesn't mean anything in

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particular. It could mean a lot right. If I'm laying palm branches probably if you come to my

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house and I ran out and I threw palm branches down thank you right good timing. If I threw the palm

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branch down and I threw my coat down and I bowed before you how many think that was weird first of

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all right. But if you did that right that would have a whole different meaning to it right.

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A wave can mean a lot of different things. It can be super trivial. It can mean hello. It could be

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goodbye. It could be the motorcycle wave right. How many know there's a motorcycle wave? If you're

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if you're riding a bike you don't you don't go like this. First of all it's wind resistant. You'll

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dislocate your shoulder okay. That's probably why they do it down low but if you're riding a bike

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they do this. They'll just go hey right. That means to another biker I see you okay. I acknowledge you.

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That does not mean they want to name their firstborn child after you all right. That's not

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what it means. It can mean a lot of different things. A Princess Diana wave is look at me. Look

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at me. Look at me right. There's a lot of things with the wave. The other day I came up to a

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construction site and when I pulled up they of course they stopped me right. They had the sign

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and then there was people waving me on. Did you ever meet an angry construction person?

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You ever run into one of those? Man he started waving me on. I thought I offended him. He's like

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come on right. Come on. I didn't know whether to floor it you know or stop and talk to him for a

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little bit. I don't know. I don't know if he got a bad call right before all that. Seriously he

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did. He seriously did that all right. There's all kind of ways. Jesus makes his way into Jerusalem

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and some are laying palm branches and they're waving and some are shouting and recognition

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and recognition but most are looking at Jesus for a reason. They're looking at him for what they can

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get out of this guy. What's he going to bring to the table? Is he going to deliver me from Rome?

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Is he going to meet my need? Is he going to heal me? What's he going to do? And Jesus was telling

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those closest to him, those right around him, he says guys this is more than a wave. It's more than

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a palm branch. It's more than a nod. It's more than a tip right. A tip of the hat. It's way more

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than that. If you're going to follow me you're going to follow me into death. How many know

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that's a lot more than a wave? That's much more than a wave. He says this in 23 but Jesus answered

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them saying the hours come that the Son of Man should be glorified. Most assuredly I say to you

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unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies it remains alone but if it dies it produces

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much grain. Jesus was referring to himself. He was talking in a physical sense for himself.

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He knew that he was about to go and die on a cross. He would go into the grave and he knew he was

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going to rise up three days later. He was talking about that in physical but he was turning to his

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disciples and he's saying if you're going to follow me there's some things that have to die in your

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life. He wasn't talking in the physical. He was talking about spiritual things. There's some things

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you're going to have to lay down. There's some things if you're going to produce, if you're going

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to become productive in the kingdom of God, if you're going to be productive in following me as

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Lord and Savior, there's some things if you want to follow Jesus we got to put some things in the

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ground. Do you know that? It's true. We do. I didn't give many amens for that. It's way more

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than a wave. It's way more than a simple acknowledgement. It's more than a tip of the

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hat. It's even more than laying palm branches and throwing our coats down and saying Hosanna. It's

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more than that. For Jesus it was a physical thing but for us we got to die to some things

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and one of the things we got to die to or put in the ground is sin. It really is. 1 Peter 2

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24 says this, he himself bore our sins. It's talking about Jesus here. He or who, come on back up,

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who himself, I saw a little talk myself right there out loud, who himself bore our sins in our

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own body on the tree that we having died to sins might live for righteousness by whose stripes we

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were healed for you were like sheep going astray but have now returned to the shepherd and the

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overseer of your soul. Sin is an immoral act considered to be a transgression against a divine

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God, a holy God. We sang about it this morning. Sin is acting in rebellion. It's going against

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what God has spoke. So if I'm following Jesus it's way more than a wave. It's way more than just

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doing this. It's saying I got to lay some things down. I can't do some of the things that I used

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to do. I can't participate in some of the things I used to participate in because it's sin.

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I thought about this. I thought I could make a list of them but how many of them is a lot?

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We could spend a lot of time listing out what sin is and what it isn't but we're following Jesus.

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It's more than a wave. It's laying down. It's burying that sin. I thought about this. I thought

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I'll just give you one. I'll just give you one example of what I'm talking about. If we're

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following Jesus do you know that we got to lay down speaking falsely against somebody else?

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Now that's a fancy way of saying a lying about somebody else. If I'm following Christ Jesus said

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we're not supposed to speak falsely against our brother. We're not supposed to speak falsely

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against our neighbor. We're not supposed to do any of that and we're not supposed to tell a lie

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about anybody. He said if you do that, if you follow me you got to bury that thing.

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You got to put that thing away. 1 John 3 says whoever commits and if you look at other translations

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it says practices. Whoever practices sin also commits lawlessness and sin is lawlessness.

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You know that he was manifested to take away our sins and in him there is no sin. Whoever abides

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in him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen him nor known him. Little children let no one

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deceive you. He who practices practices righteousness is righteous just as he is righteous.

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Now this scripture is not talking about perfection because none of us are perfect in here.

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We've all sinned. We all fall short of the glory of God. That's not what I'm talking about. It's

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talking about what we practice. What are we practicing? What are we practicing? Is it more

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than just a wave? What are we practicing? What are we doing? Practice is about what you do on the

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regular. Do you know that? If you practice an instrument, I always get a little envy because I

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watch all these people who are playing the instruments and I always wanted to. I took lessons

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for about a year. I still stunk so I just quit. Sometimes you just got to know your limitations.

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But I watch them and they've practiced and if you practice playing an instrument, what do they call

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you? A musician. If you practice the sport and you get really good at sport, they call you

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an athlete. If you practice lying, what do they call you? A liar. Come on. There's some things

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you got to put in the ground because if you're practicing them, if you're practicing them,

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if you're practicing them, you're going against what God speaks. Jesus was getting ready to leave.

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He was getting ready to go and he's telling his disciples, listen, you got to put some things in

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the ground. You can't do some things the same way. Sin is one of them but there's other things too.

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There's things outside of sin. Verse 8 says, he who sins is of the devil for the devil has sinned

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from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifest that he might destroy the works of

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the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin for his sin remains in him and he cannot sin

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because he has been born of God. It's really more than just a wave. I quit practicing sin.

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Jesus, I want you to think about this for a moment because Jesus died. The reason Christ went to the

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cross, he died to take away our sin. He died to cover our sin. We can't do that on our own. It's

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all a work of grace by him and it's his blood who washes us clean. He says just don't practice it.

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As I thought about that, I thought what a slap in the face to God if he literally gives his life

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to take my sin away and I just say, I'm going to do it anyway. I was going to practice that anyhow.

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He gave his life for this. First John 1, 8 says, for we say if we have no sin, we deceive ourselves

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and the truth is not in us. But if we confess our sins, that's why he tells us to confess.

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When we sin, when we mess up, when we do something against God, he is faithful and just to forgive

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us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a

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liar and his word is not in us. When I was growing up, my parents taught me to confess when I sinned.

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When I messed up, I knew I needed to go to God in prayer and I needed to confess what I did and let

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Christ's blood take care of that and wash me clean. We don't talk about that much anymore.

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Confession, there is freedom in confession when you speak it up. I'm not going to tell you to

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turn and confess to somebody right now. That's not what I'm doing. But there is freedom in

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confession. When I come to God, confess, he knows we are going to get it wrong. He knows we are going

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to mess up. But he is the provision. He was the remedy. He was the one who brought us back and

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reconciled us to God and took away sin. But it doesn't mean I should practice it. We correct our

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kids. How many correct your kid if your kid keeps messing up over and over and over again?

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How many love that? We love it. You love it when your kid just keeps doing the same thing over and

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over. Practicing rebellion is awesome. How many know you give them a good talking to? You go to

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the power stands. You have a good talking with them. 1 John 2.1, my little children, these things I

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write to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father.

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Man, when I get it wrong, Jesus is at the right hand of the Father and he is making it right.

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All I've got to do, it's just so simple. I just come and confess. He is the remedy for sin. We

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got to put sin in the ground. Put it in the ground. Practicing sin. I know we are going to

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mess up. I know we are going to get it wrong. I had to confess two weeks ago to you that I got it

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all messed up and I got it all wrong. God kind of crushed me and I had to go confess. I said,

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Lord, I messed this up royally. Because following Jesus is more than just a wave.

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Can I give you a super sobering verse on Palm Sunday? Sometimes there are some verses that just

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sober you up completely. This is super sobering. Hebrews 10.26 is a good one to write down.

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For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains

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a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation,

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which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on

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the testimony of two or three witnesses. That was the old law. That was previous. How much worse

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punishment do you suppose he will be thought worthy of who has trampled the Son of God underfoot,

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counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sacrificed, a common thing, and insulted the Spirit

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of Grace? Wow. Wow. It's more than just a wave. It's more than just a, Jesus said if you're going

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to follow me, you've got to put some stuff in the ground. You've got to bury some things. Jesus was

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about to go to the cross and he's hitting his disciples with this mini sermon. He's now paying

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attention to all this world, all the stress, all the things that are taking place, all those who are

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out to kill him. He stops and he gives them a sermon. He says, put it in the ground, guys, by the way.

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Right. Put it in the ground. John 12 25 says, he said this also, he who loves his life will lose it

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and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves me, let him

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follow me and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me, my father will honor.

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Right. He'll honor him. I wonder if all the people standing along the road that day, right, grabbing

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the palm branches and throwing them on the ground. I wonder if Jesus would have stopped and gave this

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mini sermon to them. How many of them would have continued to lay palm branches on the ground?

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If he would have said these words, he said these to his disciples, but what if he had said this to

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the crowd that day? How many of them would have been waving? Right. And you know, and Hosanna,

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you know, I think about those things because it's more than just the wave. It's way more than that.

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Right. He said, I hate my life in this world, so I keep it for eternity. Wow. I know you're like,

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it's Palm Sunday preacher. Couldn't you preach something nice? Right. Something fun, something

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kind of pastel in color. You know how many know we do that around Easter, right? It's gonna be

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pastel in color. What did Jesus mean by this? I mean, this is intense, right? This almost seems

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when Jesus says it almost seems over the top. It feels a bit extreme. I mean, look at where God's

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word thing, man, that kind of seems extreme, right? I mean, hating my life in this world,

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hating my hating my life because the world tells us a complete opposite, right? The world says,

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do everything you can to make sure that you love this life that you're in. Right. Make sure that

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you do everything to keep yourself happy. Make sure you do everything to keep yourself healthy

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and comfortable so that you love this life that you're in. Make sure you that everything you're

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doing is benefiting you and so that you're healthy and happy. Right. Always love the skin you're in.

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Amen. Come on. I don't even know what commercialized from love the skin you're in. Indulge yourself.

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Love your life. No, hopefully nobody sees me for that. All right. Jesus comes with this radical

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message to his disciples. He who loves his life will lose it and he who hates his life in this

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world will keep it for eternal life. I read that and I'm thinking, man, that's intense. Like,

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what does that mean? And the more I began to look at it, more I began to peel back, I realized

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that Jesus was saying he was looking at his disciples. The once he trained, he says,

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love your life with me so much that you hate your life without me. Love your life so much with me

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that you would hate your life without me. Love your life so much with me that you would hate your life

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without me. Are we willing to release anything, put in the ground anything that's going to

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separate me from God? Right. Anything that's back there that's not of him and love my life so much

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with him that I'm willing just to let go of anything else that's not of him in my life.

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Am I willing to put him in a place where it's just everything that I do? He's in the middle of it.

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Right. He's in it. Have you ever seen somebody that loves something so much? They just kind of

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put everything else aside. It almost seems like they hate everything else. Right. You get a

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teenager that falls in love for the first time. Right. They meet the young man or the young lady

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and they're like, ah. And it's like nobody else exists in the whole world. Like everybody else died.

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All right. It's just those two. Right. They have no clue what's going on around them. They

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just, ah. And I know most of them are in love with the idea of being in love. I understand that.

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All right. But it's just this, this, you know, the bells and the whistles. I've seen it with that. I've

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seen that with sports, man. There's some guys that get obsessed with sports and it's like they hate

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everything else around them because something's taking place on the field. Right. It could be a hobby.

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Some people are like that with the job. They'll get their workaholics and it's like everything else

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disappears. But Jesus saying we got to love. We need to love our life with Jesus so much

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that everything else almost seems like we hate it. Right. We take him with everything.

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I don't go a single place without Jesus. It should almost make me cringe if I think about

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going anywhere without Christ, going and doing anything without him and bringing him along.

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Amen. That's true. At the beginning of this message, I told you that Jesus was in Bethany and he was

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visiting some friends. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. I think Mary got this right. I really do. I think

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Mary understood and she's a picture of exactly what I'm saying. And if you'd stand and the musicians

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come, I see Mary at the feet of Jesus and to do what she did. Right. First of all, to do what she

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did to sit on the ground at somebody's feet. First of all, I don't like messing with people's feet.

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Right. Anybody with me on that? Right. Right. Come on. This is real. To sit down and to sit

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at someone's feet and then to take something that expensive, a year's wages and to break it open and

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to pour it on his feet and then wipe it with her hair. Do you know, I think for Mary, she hated

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anything else. It was all about how much she loved Jesus in this life. He brought her brother back

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to life. She knows that he's the Messiah. She knows that he's the coming King. She knows that he is the

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Savior and everything else disappeared. And in that moment, she doesn't care what anyone thinks.

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She doesn't care how she looks. She doesn't care the repercussions of what somebody will say later.

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Somebody like Judas who was complaining about the whole thing. She didn't care. She just loved her

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life with Christ that much. And everything else would fade it away. Do I love my life with Christ?

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Right. Enough that almost everything else looks like I hate it. I know those are strong words.

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But man, when my kids were growing up, you weren't even allowed to say it. We didn't even let them say

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hate in the house. They weren't allowed to say it. But you understand. Do we love our life with Christ

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that much? We're coming into Easter. We're coming into a time, right, when we really celebrate what

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Jesus did. And I've got to ask myself a question. Do I have any part of my life that I could say

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that if I don't take Christ there, I don't know. How many of you stay away from what you hate?

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Right. If you hate milk, how many of you drink milk if you hate it? No. You stay away from it,

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right? You shove it to the back of the fridge. You dump it when nobody's looking. You hate it.

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You stay away from that thing. Come on. You just, it's after, follow in Christ. I'm going to ask you

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to bow your heads. We're getting ready to go into Easter. I want you to think every slice of your

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life. I know that's a lot. That's a lot to span through in your mind, but you can do it. I want

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you to think through all the different slices of your life. Maybe the different categories. That's

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going to look different for all of us because we're all in different stages of life. We're in

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different places in life. We're in different job situations. We're in different family structures.

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We're in all these different places. I want you to think about all the slices and I want you to

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think, do you have any place that, man, you would absolutely hate it if you didn't take Jesus here

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with you because there shouldn't be any slice of life that you put off to the side.

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You may have to bury something this morning. You might have to put something in the ground

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and you need to take Jesus everywhere you go. Every slice that you're in.

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Lord, we come to you today. I thank you for God those are in the house. God, those who are listening

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online. Lord, on this Palm Sunday, Lord, we do celebrate God the fact that you are king and you

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are Lord and Savior. I don't want one slice of my life to be without you. Lord, if I eliminate you

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from any slice, God, if it's in my thought life, God, I pray you get a hold of my thought life.

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I pray God that I would capture my thoughts and Lord God that I would get you in the middle of my

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thoughts. Lord, if it's in my family life, God, if it's in my relationships with my friends, God,

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if it's in the relationship at school, God, if it's in my work, Lord, if it's in my play,

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God, if it's in any slice, God, anything that I'm doing, God, I want to make sure I walk in

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with you and God, I want to make sure, Lord, that I hate my life without you in any slice of my life,

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Lord, and God, if there's something that is separating me, if there's something there's

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keeping you out and just me in, God, help me to bury that thing. Help me to put it in the ground

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and Lord, so I can be productive in you. So my life produces fruit. We just give you glory.

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We give you praise and we give you honor. In Jesus name. Amen.

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