WEBVTT 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:06.019 Welcome to Season 3 of Love & Context. This season, 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:08.640 we're exploring the life of Jesus step -by -step 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:11.140 and uncovering what His story teaches us about 00:00:11.140 --> 00:00:13.919 loving God and others. Here on Love & Context, 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:16.059 we're all about having real conversations about 00:00:16.059 --> 00:00:18.140 how to live out that love in practical, everyday 00:00:18.140 --> 00:00:20.199 ways, and understanding the Bible in its full 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:22.839 context. We're so glad you're here. Let's dive 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:28.500 into Season 3 of Love & Context. Welcome back 00:00:28.500 --> 00:00:34.840 to the Loving Context podcast. Side note, Ben's 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:37.399 starting a DJ career. If any of you have bar 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:40.140 mitzvahs, he only does bar mitzvahs. Only bar 00:00:40.140 --> 00:00:44.799 mitzvahs. Yeah, no bat mitzvahs, only bar mitzvahs. 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:48.560 Just bar mitzvahs. It is Wednesday, and we're 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:52.119 both exhausted. It is one of those days. People 00:00:52.119 --> 00:00:54.840 don't know, but we post on Friday, but usually 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:57.840 we record on Wednesday. And we were going to 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:00.420 record last Wednesday, but Spencer was so sad 00:01:00.420 --> 00:01:04.019 about the Mariners that he couldn't record. No, 00:01:04.099 --> 00:01:06.879 that's not it. But we could record on Wednesday, 00:01:06.980 --> 00:01:08.540 and sometimes we get here, and I'm like, this 00:01:08.540 --> 00:01:10.560 feels like the end of the week. And it's not. 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.120 And I've got like two more days to go. And I'm 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:17.329 like, hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Wednesdays, we did try 00:01:17.329 --> 00:01:19.730 recording on Fridays, but my usually like my 00:01:19.730 --> 00:01:21.730 Wednesday, Thursdays are just slammed. And by 00:01:21.730 --> 00:01:24.090 the time I get to Friday afternoon, my thoughts 00:01:24.090 --> 00:01:26.590 are like, all right, we are talking Bible stuff 00:01:26.590 --> 00:01:29.430 and there's words here we should read. And I 00:01:29.430 --> 00:01:32.430 have a thought it's somewhere. And those are 00:01:32.430 --> 00:01:34.250 the things Ben gets to edit out. He gets there 00:01:34.250 --> 00:01:37.250 and he's like, he's like, yeah, that guy that 00:01:37.250 --> 00:01:44.959 did the thing. Jesus. If you guys remember last 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:50.219 episode, we talked about Lazarus, the raising 00:01:50.219 --> 00:01:53.420 of Lazarus, and we're going to be jumping right 00:01:53.420 --> 00:01:55.700 around that story. There's going to be this time 00:01:55.700 --> 00:01:57.519 where Jesus is now the start of the passion. 00:01:57.620 --> 00:01:59.780 He's going to be going into Jerusalem, and that's 00:01:59.780 --> 00:02:00.879 the story that we're going to be reading today. 00:02:01.099 --> 00:02:02.359 We're going to read it from two different places, 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:04.019 even though you can find it in all four Gospels. 00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:06.239 We're going to start in Matthew, and I think 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:10.849 you got that one. Yeah. As Jesus and the disciples 00:02:10.849 --> 00:02:13.870 approached Jerusalem, they came to a town of 00:02:13.870 --> 00:02:19.069 Bethpage on the Mount of Olives. Jesus sent two 00:02:19.069 --> 00:02:21.129 of them ahead, go into the village there. He 00:02:21.129 --> 00:02:23.289 said, as soon as you enter it, you will see a 00:02:23.289 --> 00:02:26.770 donkey tied there with the colt beside it. Untie 00:02:26.770 --> 00:02:30.669 and bring them to me. If anyone asks what you're 00:02:30.669 --> 00:02:33.530 doing, just say the Lord needs them and he will 00:02:33.530 --> 00:02:39.319 immediately let you take them. This took place 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:41.860 to fulfill the prophecy that was said, tell the 00:02:41.860 --> 00:02:44.479 people of Jerusalem, look, your king is coming 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:47.620 to you. He is humble, riding on a donkey, riding 00:02:47.620 --> 00:02:51.020 on a donkey's colt. The two disciples did as 00:02:51.020 --> 00:02:54.659 Jesus commanded. They brought the donkey and 00:02:54.659 --> 00:02:56.300 the colt to him and they threw their garments 00:02:56.300 --> 00:03:00.780 over the colt and he sat on it. Most of the crowd 00:03:00.780 --> 00:03:03.400 spread their garments on the road ahead of him, 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:06.360 and the others cut branches from trees and spread 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:12.699 them on the ground. Jesus is a Jew, so that's 00:03:12.699 --> 00:03:15.879 okay. You nailed it. Jesus was in the center 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:19.439 of the procession, and the people all around 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:22.319 him were shouting, Praise God for the son of 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:24.919 David. Blessings to the one who has come in the 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:27.159 name of the Lord. Praise God in the highest heavens. 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:33.379 Uh, they enter the city of Jerusalem, uh, the 00:03:33.379 --> 00:03:36.039 entire city of Jerusalem. I am so tired. Let's 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:39.199 try that again. The entire city of Jerusalem, 00:03:39.419 --> 00:03:42.400 uh, uproared as he entered. Who is this? They 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:45.319 asked. The crowds replied. It is Jesus, the prophet 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:48.919 from Nazareth in Galilee. All right, so Spencer 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:51.139 says that he's tired, and that's why he's having 00:03:51.139 --> 00:03:53.520 trouble reading. I think we all know, and we've 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:56.120 established on this podcast, Spencer can't read. 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:58.860 He's just memorized a lot of words. Yeah, it's 00:03:58.860 --> 00:04:01.039 not like that's what I teach at school every 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:04.919 day. All right, now let's hear this from the 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:06.860 Gospel of John. So the reason I chose Matthew 00:04:06.860 --> 00:04:09.400 and John is Matthew's going to be one of the 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:11.300 earlier accounts written, and John's going to 00:04:11.300 --> 00:04:13.120 be one of the later accounts written down. And 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:14.780 so just kind of seeing how they're shaped for 00:04:14.780 --> 00:04:16.459 a different audience. Also, Matthew written more 00:04:16.459 --> 00:04:19.560 to a Jewish audience. John also writing to Jews, 00:04:19.579 --> 00:04:23.860 but in a Gentile area. So starting in chapter 00:04:23.860 --> 00:04:27.459 12. So he's just had, they just had this conversation 00:04:27.459 --> 00:04:32.899 with, they've called out Lazarus. Then he's been 00:04:32.899 --> 00:04:37.279 anointed by Mary. And Judas has that conversation 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:38.839 about like, oh, you could have sold this for 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:40.240 the poor, even though that's definitely not what 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:44.420 was going to happen. And, So it says, the next 00:04:44.420 --> 00:04:46.000 day. So this is what happened previously. The 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.259 next day, the great crowds that had come for 00:04:48.259 --> 00:04:49.920 the festival heard that Jesus was on his way 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.040 to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:53.980 out to meet him, shouting, Hosanna, blessed is 00:04:53.980 --> 00:04:55.740 he who comes in the name of the Lord. Blessed 00:04:55.740 --> 00:04:58.920 is the king of Israel. Jesus found a young donkey 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:01.000 and sat on it. As it is written, do not be afraid, 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:02.879 daughter Zion. See, your king is coming, seated 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:05.420 on a donkey's colt. At first, his disciples did 00:05:05.420 --> 00:05:07.399 not understand all this. Only after Jesus was 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:09.040 glorified did they realize that these things 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:10.860 had been written about him and that these things 00:05:10.860 --> 00:05:13.000 had been done to him. Now the crowd. that was 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:15.199 with him when he raised Lazarus from the tomb 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:17.339 and raised him from the dead continued to spread 00:05:17.339 --> 00:05:19.639 the word. Many people, because they had heard 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:22.100 that he had performed this sign, went out to 00:05:22.100 --> 00:05:23.660 meet him. So the Pharisees said to one another, 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:25.579 see, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the 00:05:25.579 --> 00:05:31.259 whole world has gone after him. Okay. So a little 00:05:31.259 --> 00:05:35.779 context here. Jesus isn't the only one entering 00:05:35.779 --> 00:05:38.870 in a procession. There's another guy by the name 00:05:38.870 --> 00:05:41.189 of Pontius Pilate that's also entering in a procession. 00:05:41.449 --> 00:05:44.790 And he's going to have this military procession. 00:05:44.790 --> 00:05:47.910 There's going to be soldiers and weapons and 00:05:47.910 --> 00:05:51.129 horses. And there's going to be Hail Caesar and 00:05:51.129 --> 00:05:52.550 all these different things that are going on. 00:05:52.589 --> 00:05:54.610 This military type of procession coming into 00:05:54.610 --> 00:05:57.550 this city. And then you've got Jesus coming in 00:05:57.550 --> 00:06:01.029 on the other side. Cold donkey, free people, 00:06:01.209 --> 00:06:04.540 praising. cutting down palm trees, which we'll 00:06:04.540 --> 00:06:06.740 get to in a minute. But the reality here is that 00:06:06.740 --> 00:06:09.040 we've got two kings, we've got two kingdoms, 00:06:09.220 --> 00:06:12.839 and there's a collision of pageantry, if you 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:16.480 will. Jerusalem's population is roughly seven 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:19.160 times its normal population because of the festivals 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:21.759 that are coming up Passover. It's one of the 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:23.860 three festivals that you actually come and you're 00:06:23.860 --> 00:06:28.560 there for pilgrimage. uh, this one. And then 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:30.899 typically they'll stay for Shavuot, which is 00:06:30.899 --> 00:06:32.680 50 days later. This is going to be a tense time 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:35.540 for the Romans because this is the celebration 00:06:35.540 --> 00:06:37.360 of Passover, which is when they're celebrating, 00:06:37.540 --> 00:06:42.000 um, Exodus from Egypt. When a dictator was overthrown 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:45.079 by the power of God, um, makes you, makes you 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:46.899 a little bit nervous about like riots breaking 00:06:46.899 --> 00:06:48.600 out. That's why Pontius Pilate is even there. 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:53.540 Um, So there's a ton of political messianic tension, 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:56.079 right? Expectations. There's, there's tension 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:59.740 going on here. Um, pilot is coming in with this, 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:03.480 this position of power and authority and sword. 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:07.220 And, um, you know, what Rome is is that they're 00:07:07.220 --> 00:07:08.920 going to lay waste to all of their enemies. And 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:12.459 Jesus is riding on donkey, right? He's coming 00:07:12.459 --> 00:07:14.339 in. And, uh, if you actually read the account 00:07:14.339 --> 00:07:18.639 in Luke, he's actually going to, um, he's actually 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:21.399 going to weep when he actually sees them rejoicing. 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:22.759 And we're going to talk about why that is in 00:07:22.759 --> 00:07:25.500 just a minute. But this is a very, very different 00:07:25.500 --> 00:07:28.939 picture because like if you think about what 00:07:28.939 --> 00:07:30.579 the people are expecting, they're expecting this 00:07:30.579 --> 00:07:33.860 messianic king that's going to rise up and destroy 00:07:33.860 --> 00:07:38.420 Rome and put Israel back in forefront. And Jesus 00:07:38.420 --> 00:07:40.480 is doing none of that. You have that. That's 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:42.740 Rome. I mean, obviously the Jewish people are 00:07:42.740 --> 00:07:45.379 oppressed, but it's like that's their thing. 00:07:46.269 --> 00:07:48.610 It's not what I'm doing. Well, and that's a realistic 00:07:48.610 --> 00:07:51.269 expectation because they're coming from the context 00:07:51.269 --> 00:07:54.389 of the Exodus, right? Where the world powerhouse 00:07:54.389 --> 00:07:57.310 was brought to its knees by the Lord, right? 00:07:57.430 --> 00:08:02.250 And so Rome at the time spread through parts 00:08:02.250 --> 00:08:06.610 of Africa, Middle East, over like through what 00:08:06.610 --> 00:08:09.329 would be modern day Pakistan, Turkey, all the 00:08:09.329 --> 00:08:13.310 way up into Europe, right? Italy, and it was 00:08:13.310 --> 00:08:16.230 actually working on its spread northward and 00:08:16.230 --> 00:08:17.769 actually eventually did get all the way over 00:08:17.769 --> 00:08:21.889 to England, right? So Rome was this massive, 00:08:22.029 --> 00:08:26.490 massive empire, right? And so the Jews are probably 00:08:26.490 --> 00:08:30.009 holding on to only our God can take care of this, 00:08:30.110 --> 00:08:33.870 right? Only our God can free us from these guys, 00:08:34.029 --> 00:08:36.509 right? As crazy as it is, Rome is almost more 00:08:36.509 --> 00:08:39.000 formidable than Egypt was. It was more formidable. 00:08:39.100 --> 00:08:41.379 Yeah. Like from their perspective, because I 00:08:41.379 --> 00:08:43.100 mean, like, yes, they were enslaved in Egypt 00:08:43.100 --> 00:08:45.200 and Egypt was a powerhouse, but now Rome is like 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:50.039 the nation conquering nation. Right. One of the 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:51.539 things that's going on in the story is every 00:08:51.539 --> 00:08:54.779 word, every prop is telling a story in this. 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:57.100 So one of the first things that's actually mentioned 00:08:57.100 --> 00:09:00.600 is it comes from Zechariah 9. That's not even 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:03.919 a word. That's not a number. That's not a reference. 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:08.100 It comes from Zechariah 9. And it says that the 00:09:08.100 --> 00:09:10.600 king comes humbly. riding on a donkey, bringing 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:14.120 peace instead of war. Now the next verse, Zechariah 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:15.840 9 and 10, is then going to declare that the king 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:18.799 will banish chariots and command peace to the 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.840 nations. So he comes on the colt saying, I'm 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:26.360 bringing peace, not war. But that's not what 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:29.480 the people see. Like Jesus is telling a story 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:32.070 even how he's coming in. He's like, I'm bringing 00:09:32.070 --> 00:09:34.070 peace, not war. And they're just like, yeah, 00:09:34.090 --> 00:09:36.190 peace when you drive out the Romans and then 00:09:36.190 --> 00:09:39.909 we'll be at peace, right? They actually quote, 00:09:40.049 --> 00:09:42.889 let's see here, donkeys in the Old Testament 00:09:42.889 --> 00:09:47.649 in Solomon in 1 Kings 1 .33, donkeys will symbolize 00:09:47.649 --> 00:09:52.250 royal mounts for peacetime kings. They quote 00:09:52.250 --> 00:09:55.090 from Psalm 118. You heard that. We said the crowd's 00:09:55.090 --> 00:09:57.289 cry of Hosanna come from this festival. It's 00:09:57.289 --> 00:10:00.809 actually a festival hymn, right? Sung as pilgrims 00:10:00.809 --> 00:10:02.950 as they enter the temple. Save us, we pray, O 00:10:02.950 --> 00:10:06.350 Lord, is the exclamation of hope, right? From 00:10:06.350 --> 00:10:08.909 the Psalm. And there's actually even a connection 00:10:08.909 --> 00:10:11.529 back to Genesis 49, where it says that Jacob 00:10:11.529 --> 00:10:15.509 has this oracle over Judah, where he says the 00:10:15.509 --> 00:10:18.330 kingship is going to be tied to a donkey. Right. 00:10:18.470 --> 00:10:20.070 Your kingship is actually gonna be tied to a 00:10:20.070 --> 00:10:23.669 donkey in Genesis 49. So there's a lot of things 00:10:23.669 --> 00:10:27.070 that are connecting from the Torah here. And, 00:10:27.269 --> 00:10:30.590 um, I don't want to say that people miss all 00:10:30.590 --> 00:10:34.149 of it, but they miss a lot of it. And I think 00:10:34.149 --> 00:10:36.450 John highlights as well. He's like, we didn't 00:10:36.450 --> 00:10:39.269 really understand what he was doing, but after 00:10:39.269 --> 00:10:43.950 he rose, we're like, Oh yeah. And like, And don't 00:10:43.950 --> 00:10:47.110 jump on the people's case too much on this. No, 00:10:47.169 --> 00:10:49.950 totally BS. Let's just ask a simple question. 00:10:50.090 --> 00:10:52.889 Have you ever been so single -minded or focused 00:10:52.889 --> 00:10:55.649 that when a change in direction is put in front 00:10:55.649 --> 00:10:57.629 of you, you still can't make that change? Right. 00:10:57.850 --> 00:11:01.070 Right? So my daughter's second grade and your 00:11:01.070 --> 00:11:04.509 son's first grade? Mm -hmm. Am I about to hear 00:11:04.509 --> 00:11:09.669 a story about today? No, you're not. But there 00:11:09.669 --> 00:11:13.710 has been times where my kid has been so focused 00:11:13.710 --> 00:11:16.129 on every detail on how something's going to play 00:11:16.129 --> 00:11:18.970 out that when one little thing gets off, she's 00:11:18.970 --> 00:11:23.629 like... My world is undone and there's no way 00:11:23.629 --> 00:11:25.269 I can function throughout the rest of the day. 00:11:25.509 --> 00:11:28.149 Well, there's also, and beyond that too, there's 00:11:28.149 --> 00:11:30.009 also this thing of like, we have this expectation 00:11:30.009 --> 00:11:32.350 of how we think it's going to play out. Like 00:11:32.350 --> 00:11:35.190 to your point, one of my favorite stories is 00:11:35.190 --> 00:11:37.549 the story about there's this flood coming into 00:11:37.549 --> 00:11:40.610 an area and this guy, his neighbors come and 00:11:40.610 --> 00:11:41.830 tell him, they're like, hey, you got to evacuate 00:11:41.830 --> 00:11:43.330 because there's flood coming in there. He's like, 00:11:43.389 --> 00:11:44.870 listen, I already prayed and God told me he would 00:11:44.870 --> 00:11:48.080 save me. And they're like. Okay. So then later 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.159 the floodwaters would come up to the, to the 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:51.840 top of the roof, right? And he's sitting on the 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:53.879 roof and this guy comes up in a boat and he says, 00:11:53.980 --> 00:11:55.639 Hey, you know, we're getting people out of here, 00:11:55.659 --> 00:11:57.519 like jump on the boat. And he says, no, God already 00:11:57.519 --> 00:12:00.240 told me that he had saved me. And then he's standing 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:01.460 on the top of the roof and the water's up to 00:12:01.460 --> 00:12:03.720 his chest and a helicopter comes up and he says, 00:12:03.779 --> 00:12:05.460 dude, we can get you out of here. Come give me 00:12:05.460 --> 00:12:07.139 your hand. We'll get you out of here and we'll 00:12:07.139 --> 00:12:08.379 save you. He says, nope. God already said that 00:12:08.379 --> 00:12:11.200 he would save me. Then he drowns and dies. And 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:12.460 he's in heaven. He asked God, he's like, God, 00:12:12.539 --> 00:12:13.860 you told me that you would save me. He's like, 00:12:13.899 --> 00:12:17.019 I sent your neighbors. I sent a boat and I sent 00:12:17.019 --> 00:12:21.220 a helicopter. What do you need? Right. And, uh, 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:23.139 and so we're like, well, this is how God's going 00:12:23.139 --> 00:12:26.600 to save. This is how God is going to, um, he's 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:29.639 going to, he's going to fix the world. Right. 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:33.279 Um, and, and I would also say, don't get on the 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:36.529 Hebrews case about, uh, about them having this 00:12:36.529 --> 00:12:39.230 focus of the heat. We're going to get freed from 00:12:39.230 --> 00:12:42.429 Roman oppression because look at, look at the 00:12:42.429 --> 00:12:44.710 old Testament moving forward. You have, you have 00:12:44.710 --> 00:12:47.389 Egypt that gets freed from Egypt, right? You 00:12:47.389 --> 00:12:49.450 have them being conquered by Assyrians. They 00:12:49.450 --> 00:12:51.570 get freed from that. The Babylonians, they get 00:12:51.570 --> 00:12:53.929 freed from that. I'm probably forgetting a few 00:12:53.929 --> 00:12:55.990 others, but like, but you see, you see what I'm 00:12:55.990 --> 00:12:58.029 saying? There's other nations that have come 00:12:58.029 --> 00:13:00.549 in and conquered them time and time again. And 00:13:00.549 --> 00:13:02.570 the Lord has brought up somebody to free them 00:13:02.570 --> 00:13:05.570 from that. Right. So it, so in their minds, it 00:13:05.570 --> 00:13:09.230 is a very, very continuing a pattern, very reasonable 00:13:09.230 --> 00:13:11.950 expectation to say the Lord's going to rise up 00:13:11.950 --> 00:13:15.649 somebody to free us from Rome. So the, uh, so 00:13:15.649 --> 00:13:17.269 the question I wrote here as a prompt for us 00:13:17.269 --> 00:13:18.990 to talk about kind of talking through these points 00:13:18.990 --> 00:13:21.549 because what they do, um, by the way, once again, 00:13:21.590 --> 00:13:23.009 I want to point out, we're not getting onto the 00:13:23.009 --> 00:13:24.610 Jewish people. We're just using them as a talking 00:13:24.610 --> 00:13:27.970 point, really talking about us. Right. Um, did 00:13:27.970 --> 00:13:29.830 the crowd cheer for the wrong kind of Messiah? 00:13:30.289 --> 00:13:34.309 And would we have to? Yeah, because so one of 00:13:34.309 --> 00:13:35.870 the things they're doing is they spread cloaks 00:13:35.870 --> 00:13:38.710 on the on the road If you look at 2nd Kings 913 00:13:38.710 --> 00:13:40.710 that Jehu is proclaimed king. This is the same 00:13:40.710 --> 00:13:42.889 thing that they do So this is a king thing you 00:13:42.889 --> 00:13:46.029 throw your cloaks out The palms symbolize victory 00:13:46.029 --> 00:13:48.129 and Jewish nationalism, but they're often used 00:13:48.129 --> 00:13:49.809 in revolts like the Maccabean uprising Which 00:13:49.809 --> 00:13:52.370 happened just a couple hundred years before right? 00:13:53.330 --> 00:13:56.769 And, uh, so in your, in your, like their head, 00:13:56.889 --> 00:13:59.029 they're like, Oh, this is it. This is Maccabean. 00:13:59.129 --> 00:14:00.690 This is what we've seen. This is like, they're 00:14:00.690 --> 00:14:01.789 going to come and liberate. They're going to 00:14:01.789 --> 00:14:03.929 come and overthrow. Uh, we're going to see, you 00:14:03.929 --> 00:14:06.129 know, all these things coming back. And in the 00:14:06.129 --> 00:14:08.590 middle of this, people are, they're going, they're 00:14:08.590 --> 00:14:11.090 Hoshana, Hoshana, you know, and they're excited 00:14:11.090 --> 00:14:13.629 because they're like, Rome is going down. And 00:14:13.629 --> 00:14:19.250 if you read the, um, read the text in Luke says 00:14:19.250 --> 00:14:20.789 that Jesus looks at it and he starts crying. 00:14:22.490 --> 00:14:25.549 And I remember when we talked about Lazarus, 00:14:25.549 --> 00:14:27.669 we talked about that Jesus wept. And it's one 00:14:27.669 --> 00:14:30.970 word for it's like deep emotional anguish. The 00:14:30.970 --> 00:14:35.149 word here is different. And he's very sad. Like 00:14:35.149 --> 00:14:38.289 he's actually shedding tears, like legit tears. 00:14:38.710 --> 00:14:44.049 Like this is heartbreaking for him. It's hard. 00:14:44.830 --> 00:14:47.990 Yeah. And I mean, we do that. Like as parents, 00:14:48.049 --> 00:14:50.639 we do that, right? Yeah. When our kids get so 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:52.960 stuck in their ways and they're like, you are 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:55.919 just missing the point. I mean, sometimes we 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:58.899 shed tears. Sometimes we yell a little bit, right? 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:03.600 Speak for yourself. I have never yelled in my 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:05.679 life. I have never heard you yell at your kids. 00:15:08.019 --> 00:15:13.500 Hey, get down from there. Exactly. But, you know, 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.029 that's just kind of it's. It's one of those things 00:15:16.029 --> 00:15:19.110 that we can relate to as well. Yeah. Like Jesus 00:15:19.110 --> 00:15:22.009 sees the people doing this and these people think 00:15:22.009 --> 00:15:24.490 they're doing the right thing. Yeah. And Jesus 00:15:24.490 --> 00:15:28.230 is like, no, like you're missing it. This. Okay. 00:15:28.269 --> 00:15:30.570 So kids is actually a great way to talk about 00:15:30.570 --> 00:15:34.960 this because we went to the zoo. It was either 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:36.980 Boise Zoo or it was the - To be clear, Ben went 00:15:36.980 --> 00:15:38.500 to the zoo with his kids. I didn't go with Ben. 00:15:38.659 --> 00:15:41.000 Yeah. Spencer and I went to the zoo. Just Ben 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:44.299 and I went to the zoo. We ate some corn dogs 00:15:44.299 --> 00:15:47.360 and we had popcorn. No, I'm just kidding. So 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:48.519 I can't remember if it was the Anchorage Zoo 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:51.279 or the Boise Zoo, but we went to the zoo because 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:53.700 James wanted to see animals, right? And so this 00:15:53.700 --> 00:15:57.259 was sometime in the last couple of years. Right 00:15:57.259 --> 00:16:00.100 at the entrance of the zoo, there's like these 00:16:00.100 --> 00:16:03.419 little animal figures that you can like - crawl 00:16:03.419 --> 00:16:06.899 on mm -hmm and James wanted to crawl on him totally 00:16:06.899 --> 00:16:09.539 fine right then we're actually gonna go into 00:16:09.539 --> 00:16:12.269 the zoo We're going to go because there's a playground 00:16:12.269 --> 00:16:14.570 on the way. You can see the tigers. You can see 00:16:14.570 --> 00:16:17.029 the bears. We can see the fish. All the things 00:16:17.029 --> 00:16:18.389 that are going on. I still thought you were going 00:16:18.389 --> 00:16:21.450 to go lion so that I could go, oh, my. Sorry. 00:16:22.970 --> 00:16:25.610 I messed you up. Sorry. I was waiting. I mean, 00:16:25.649 --> 00:16:28.830 I teed you up, and then you went to fish. And 00:16:28.830 --> 00:16:33.509 I was like, bro, golden opportunity. That's how 00:16:33.509 --> 00:16:35.350 you can tell I did not plan what I was about 00:16:35.350 --> 00:16:37.450 to say before I said it because I totally would 00:16:37.450 --> 00:16:43.049 have done that. Oh, my. anyways so he's on this 00:16:43.049 --> 00:16:46.269 playing with these like little figurines like 00:16:46.269 --> 00:16:47.690 he's playing with them and he doesn't want to 00:16:47.690 --> 00:16:50.009 leave he's like these are the best things that 00:16:50.009 --> 00:16:54.590 I've ever had or been around and so we're like 00:16:54.590 --> 00:16:57.429 hey we need to go deeper in and he just pitches 00:16:57.429 --> 00:17:00.309 the biggest fit I'm sure you have no idea what 00:17:00.309 --> 00:17:04.369 this is like right And, and like, it gets to 00:17:04.369 --> 00:17:07.269 this point where I know where we're going and 00:17:07.269 --> 00:17:10.329 I know the excitement that he's going to have. 00:17:10.470 --> 00:17:14.230 Yeah. But I almost don't want to go there now 00:17:14.230 --> 00:17:17.210 because it's getting ruined, you know, because 00:17:17.210 --> 00:17:19.670 he's focusing on something. He's focusing on 00:17:19.670 --> 00:17:21.930 something of not where we're going, but like 00:17:21.930 --> 00:17:24.670 where we are. Yeah. And he's so focused on where 00:17:24.670 --> 00:17:26.170 we are that he doesn't understand. I'm like, 00:17:26.190 --> 00:17:29.049 dude, you have no idea what's coming. You have 00:17:29.049 --> 00:17:31.849 no idea what's coming. Yeah. You know, and you 00:17:31.849 --> 00:17:34.029 are, you are so convinced that this is the best 00:17:34.029 --> 00:17:37.950 thing that's ever happened to you. We need to 00:17:37.950 --> 00:17:41.650 go deeper. Right. And I just, I just think that 00:17:41.650 --> 00:17:43.849 this is a lot of what like is happening. And 00:17:43.849 --> 00:17:47.170 this, this is like legitimate, like fears and 00:17:47.170 --> 00:17:48.930 concerns. And like, I don't want to minimize 00:17:48.930 --> 00:17:52.049 how people feel when, when oppression and sin 00:17:52.049 --> 00:17:53.529 and brokenness and all the things that we deal 00:17:53.529 --> 00:17:54.869 with in life. Right. Where we're waiting for 00:17:54.869 --> 00:17:57.089 God to break through where we're at. And we're 00:17:57.089 --> 00:17:59.359 like, we're like, you know, right here. Like 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:00.759 God's going to do this. But he's like, dude, 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:02.339 just go a little bit deeper. I've got something 00:18:02.339 --> 00:18:07.599 way better planned for you. Right? No! You know? 00:18:09.380 --> 00:18:12.180 Well, and you look at the act of throwing your 00:18:12.180 --> 00:18:15.720 cloaks down and throwing palm trees down. Part 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:17.579 of the reason that this was done, or at least 00:18:17.579 --> 00:18:20.359 this is one interpretation of it, is the roads 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:22.039 that you traveled on back in those days were 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:24.650 incredibly dirty. Right? They were full, we've 00:18:24.650 --> 00:18:26.490 talked about it, full of animal poop and full 00:18:26.490 --> 00:18:28.450 of just like, they were not clean around. And 00:18:28.450 --> 00:18:31.029 in case you missed that, he said poop. Poop. 00:18:31.490 --> 00:18:35.730 Yes, animal poop. And so you, like, this is the 00:18:35.730 --> 00:18:38.369 only podcast that talks about the Bible and poop. 00:18:41.710 --> 00:18:44.750 So, but part of that act of like throwing your 00:18:44.750 --> 00:18:47.609 cloak down for a king or a savior or something 00:18:47.609 --> 00:18:50.109 like that is you are trying to keep them clean 00:18:50.109 --> 00:18:51.910 and pure in the sight of the Lord. Like it's 00:18:51.910 --> 00:18:53.930 this imagery piece that takes place, right? Yeah. 00:18:54.529 --> 00:18:57.089 But then the question becomes is why were they 00:18:57.089 --> 00:18:59.589 trying to keep him? Why were they trying to keep 00:18:59.589 --> 00:19:02.910 this purity, right? Were they trying to keep 00:19:02.910 --> 00:19:05.670 it for Jesus' sake so that Jesus could remain 00:19:05.670 --> 00:19:08.750 pure? Or were they trying to do it for their 00:19:08.750 --> 00:19:11.829 own sake of like, if we keep him pure, we get 00:19:11.829 --> 00:19:16.589 saved from this oppression, right? And like, 00:19:16.589 --> 00:19:20.789 if you take that interpretation, I personally, 00:19:21.230 --> 00:19:24.690 and please don't take this as like, this is... 00:19:25.449 --> 00:19:28.410 like a hundred percent theologically true. This 00:19:28.410 --> 00:19:31.009 is just a Spencer interpretation. Okay. But we 00:19:31.009 --> 00:19:33.549 take that. And then personally, I see Jesus going 00:19:33.549 --> 00:19:35.849 and weeping and being like, you guys just missed 00:19:35.849 --> 00:19:38.690 the point. Yeah. It's not just about you. Yeah. 00:19:38.730 --> 00:19:40.829 Right. Well, and that's, and that's, what's going 00:19:40.829 --> 00:19:42.809 to be continuing to go on as, as, because we're 00:19:42.809 --> 00:19:44.990 going to be, uh, the back half of the season 00:19:44.990 --> 00:19:48.339 is going through passion week. Right. And there's 00:19:48.339 --> 00:19:50.279 so many times, like even next week, we're going 00:19:50.279 --> 00:19:51.500 to talk about Jesus going through and cleansing 00:19:51.500 --> 00:19:54.759 the temple. He's like, you missed the point, 00:19:54.839 --> 00:19:56.740 right? It's going to be a lot of, you missed 00:19:56.740 --> 00:19:59.660 the point. Yeah. You missed the point over and 00:19:59.660 --> 00:20:01.940 over and over again, uh, to the point that they 00:20:01.940 --> 00:20:03.519 get frustrated and they, they're like, well, 00:20:03.539 --> 00:20:05.700 maybe we'll just kill you. Yeah. You know? Well, 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:07.500 and the combination of those two stories is you 00:20:07.500 --> 00:20:09.859 have the story of like, here's the show we're 00:20:09.859 --> 00:20:11.779 going to, we're going to keep you quote unquote 00:20:11.779 --> 00:20:14.859 clean, uh, free from mess. And then Jesus goes 00:20:14.859 --> 00:20:18.339 to the temple and he's like, what the flip are 00:20:18.339 --> 00:20:20.599 you doing? Yeah. Right. Literally. And then flip 00:20:20.599 --> 00:20:23.460 stables. And I do, I'm like, I don't want to 00:20:23.460 --> 00:20:26.740 under, understate how, I think sometimes like 00:20:26.740 --> 00:20:28.539 we hear it and we just don't necessarily think 00:20:28.539 --> 00:20:31.059 about how revolutionary, like the way that Jesus 00:20:31.059 --> 00:20:33.500 tells us conquering actually happens because 00:20:33.500 --> 00:20:36.799 he goes in on a cult. So Romans come in chariots. 00:20:37.879 --> 00:20:41.940 you know, loud noises, singers, you know, whatever 00:20:41.940 --> 00:20:43.940 you want to call it. Right. It's, it's loud. 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:46.119 It's bombastic. And he's coming in on a cult 00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:48.400 and he's weeping because he recognizes that they're 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:50.279 missing the point. It's a lot of like humbleness 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:52.799 that he's, he's coming to bring peace. Like not, 00:20:52.819 --> 00:20:55.099 it's going to be not that many days later. He's 00:20:55.099 --> 00:20:57.960 going to be walking out, carrying a cross. So 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:01.460 he comes in humble and he leaves in one of the 00:21:01.460 --> 00:21:04.039 most humiliating ways possible. Right. Literally 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:09.279 carrying a cross. Like, And this is how the world 00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:14.180 is conquered. Like, I don't think we can understate 00:21:14.180 --> 00:21:18.359 how, how weird the way that God's kingdom actually 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:20.980 works is that when we say upside down kingdom, 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:24.279 we really mean upside upside down. His coronation 00:21:24.279 --> 00:21:30.140 event is a crucifixion. it's, it's strange. He 00:21:30.140 --> 00:21:33.359 says to conquer the world, you have to lay your 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:35.319 life down. You have to be willing to pick up 00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:38.079 your cross and follow after him. Yeah. Right. 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:41.079 You gotta be well, and that's not just die because 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:43.200 you're, you're, you're a diehard. It means because 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:45.400 you're willing to lay down your life to protect, 00:21:45.619 --> 00:21:49.460 to liberate, to lift people up, to bring the 00:21:49.460 --> 00:21:51.180 kingdom of God into the midst of other people 00:21:51.180 --> 00:21:53.000 so that people are able to engage with who God 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:55.599 is. That's the kind of thing that actually conquers 00:21:55.599 --> 00:22:01.700 the world. Yeah. And we say that, but it's not 00:22:01.700 --> 00:22:06.859 actually bred into the... It feels like it's 00:22:06.859 --> 00:22:08.359 one of the things that's missing in the fiber 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:11.420 of the Christian church. That we actually exist 00:22:11.420 --> 00:22:15.920 to lay ourselves down for other people. To disciple 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:19.279 other people. Well, a lot of Christian church 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:23.579 talk today talks about... is still, still kind 00:22:23.579 --> 00:22:25.480 of leans towards that. This is what you receive. 00:22:25.619 --> 00:22:28.700 This is what you get. Right. But then it's, what 00:22:28.700 --> 00:22:31.839 do you do with what you get? Like, as you were 00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:34.619 following Jesus, you are going to inherently 00:22:34.619 --> 00:22:37.579 become more like him. Right. As you're leaning 00:22:37.579 --> 00:22:40.359 into that relationship with God and you're inherently 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:42.740 going to start seeing the world the way God sees 00:22:42.740 --> 00:22:45.160 the world and living the way God wants, wants 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:48.079 you to live. It's a natural progression and we 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:49.960 often treat it like a checklist, but we often, 00:22:50.650 --> 00:22:53.490 we often like, uh, we often say those prayers 00:22:53.490 --> 00:22:55.190 like, Oh Lord, thank you for everything you've 00:22:55.190 --> 00:22:57.009 done for me and all that I've gotten out of it. 00:22:57.069 --> 00:22:58.910 And then we kind of leave it at that. And then 00:22:58.910 --> 00:23:02.569 we forget to add in the, put people in my place 00:23:02.569 --> 00:23:05.109 so I can put people in front of me that I can 00:23:05.109 --> 00:23:07.289 share you with or something like that. Right. 00:23:07.829 --> 00:23:09.750 Right. Because it goes hand in hand. We receive 00:23:09.750 --> 00:23:12.690 so we can give, we don't just receive so we can 00:23:12.690 --> 00:23:15.049 keep it to ourselves. I mean, I think Jesus talked 00:23:15.049 --> 00:23:18.400 about this a few. few chapters ago about something, 00:23:18.420 --> 00:23:20.140 something about like a light on a hill or something 00:23:20.140 --> 00:23:22.759 like that. Well, and, and even going all the 00:23:22.759 --> 00:23:24.680 way back to Genesis 12, you have been blessed 00:23:24.680 --> 00:23:28.240 so that all nations would be blessed. Right? 00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:31.500 So you have been like, God has done something 00:23:31.500 --> 00:23:35.759 in your favor so that through you, all the people 00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:38.819 around you receive the blessing of God. Right. 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:41.640 And, uh, and so what does that, what does that 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:43.920 actually look like? You know? And, and, um, I, 00:23:44.019 --> 00:23:45.400 I wrote down this quote because I thought it 00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:48.779 was great. Um, sometimes divine truth comes dressed 00:23:48.779 --> 00:23:51.059 like a street protest and street poetry at once. 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:58.259 You know, I was like, uh, it just, it's down 00:23:58.259 --> 00:24:00.579 and it's dirty and it's in your face, you know? 00:24:00.990 --> 00:24:03.589 Um, one of the, one of the things that we have 00:24:03.589 --> 00:24:06.490 to not be afraid of, uh, which Jesus definitely 00:24:06.490 --> 00:24:08.049 does cause we're, we've been talking about poop. 00:24:08.150 --> 00:24:12.769 So this is real discipleship, real fellowship 00:24:12.769 --> 00:24:15.750 in the kingdom of God is messy, right? It's going 00:24:15.750 --> 00:24:17.650 to be messy, uh, because we're taking broken 00:24:17.650 --> 00:24:19.369 people and helping them put their lives back 00:24:19.369 --> 00:24:21.769 together. We're introducing them to a King who 00:24:21.769 --> 00:24:23.230 can clean up their life, but like, there's a 00:24:23.230 --> 00:24:25.509 lot to clean up. Like cleaning, coming to Jesus 00:24:25.509 --> 00:24:27.049 with your garbage means that there's garbage 00:24:27.049 --> 00:24:29.430 that has to be cleaned up. Right. That's not 00:24:29.430 --> 00:24:32.269 a bad thing, but life is messy. Discipleship 00:24:32.269 --> 00:24:35.390 is like going into someone's house, someone who's 00:24:35.390 --> 00:24:38.869 made a lifestyle of pooping on the living room 00:24:38.869 --> 00:24:41.990 floor. Yes. And you being like, hey, I want to 00:24:41.990 --> 00:24:46.210 help you clean that up. Yeah. Right. Yeah. That's 00:24:46.210 --> 00:24:48.549 what I mean. It's a really weird analogy for 00:24:48.549 --> 00:24:50.890 it, but that's what it is. Right. It's like when 00:24:50.890 --> 00:24:54.039 you are. bringing the gospel to people you're 00:24:54.039 --> 00:24:58.039 bringing you're bringing life to a place that 00:24:58.039 --> 00:25:01.299 is so dirty and messy and you're bringing you're 00:25:01.299 --> 00:25:03.799 bringing jesus who's the one who's like hey i 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:06.279 see how much you've crapped in the living room 00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:10.000 yeah and i'm gonna help take care of that so 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:12.039 there's a lot of things going on in this in this 00:25:12.039 --> 00:25:15.099 picture there's this image uh there's this juxtaposition 00:25:15.099 --> 00:25:18.799 of uh kingdom of god and rome and there is this 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:22.269 juxtaposition of like um the people and what 00:25:22.269 --> 00:25:24.630 Jesus is doing. There's this old Testament connections. 00:25:24.710 --> 00:25:27.029 There's these, this pageantry of items. He's 00:25:27.029 --> 00:25:28.730 going to be coming in and confronting like the 00:25:28.730 --> 00:25:30.769 Jewish leaders. They're like, yeah, we're not 00:25:30.769 --> 00:25:32.690 a fan of what's going on right now. He's way 00:25:32.690 --> 00:25:35.309 too popular. Right. So they're going to try to 00:25:35.309 --> 00:25:36.710 bring him down a couple of pegs, which is going 00:25:36.710 --> 00:25:40.930 to lead to some very fun conversations. Um, but 00:25:40.930 --> 00:25:43.599 the, the overwhelming image. that we should be 00:25:43.599 --> 00:25:45.740 getting during this passion week that, that Jesus 00:25:45.740 --> 00:25:48.059 is driving home. And it's going to be, uh, in 00:25:48.059 --> 00:25:51.140 the conversations, it's going to be in, um, it's 00:25:51.140 --> 00:25:52.480 going to be in the debates. It's going to be 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:53.839 in the crucifixion. It's going to be a resurrection. 00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:55.460 It's going to be in through all the, uh, through 00:25:55.460 --> 00:25:58.180 the trial is that the kingdom of God is coming 00:25:58.180 --> 00:26:01.180 to conquer, but not through coercion, but compassion, 00:26:01.400 --> 00:26:05.880 that, uh, passion, the compassion, I would even 00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:09.859 say of God that it's, he is coming to, it's coming 00:26:09.859 --> 00:26:12.200 to conquer, but not in, it looks very different 00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:15.920 than Rome. Yes. And this type of kingdom can't 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:20.339 be stopped. No. Right. It goes all the way back 00:26:20.339 --> 00:26:23.740 to Genesis one, where you have, where you have 00:26:23.740 --> 00:26:26.960 the chaos waters in the dark. And the first thing 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:29.019 God does is he brings his presence, which brings 00:26:29.019 --> 00:26:31.660 calm and he brings light to reveal what it is. 00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:36.619 Right. You have. you have that tie back over 00:26:36.619 --> 00:26:38.400 to that Matthew passage where Jesus is like, 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:40.680 you're the light on top of a hill. When light 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:42.740 is brought into a situation, it reveals what's 00:26:42.740 --> 00:26:45.359 broken. Right. Right. And then you have Jesus 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:48.480 here weeping. Well, in a little, in a bit, he's 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:50.940 going to be weeping because he realizes that 00:26:50.940 --> 00:26:53.700 there is a light that's coming, but they don't 00:26:53.700 --> 00:26:57.099 see it. Jesus is going to just a couple of chapters 00:26:57.099 --> 00:26:59.500 later in, in Matthew, he's actually going to 00:26:59.500 --> 00:27:03.940 go up and he's going to lament. And in, um, It's 00:27:03.940 --> 00:27:05.420 really interesting because they've been very 00:27:05.420 --> 00:27:07.880 much like, yeah, he's here and he's the best 00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:10.619 and blah, blah, blah. But in Matthew 23, he's 00:27:10.619 --> 00:27:13.279 going to say this, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you 00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:16.259 who kill prophets and stone those sent to you. 00:27:16.460 --> 00:27:18.640 How often I have longed to gather your children 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:20.920 together as a hen gathers her chicks under her 00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:23.460 wing. And you were not willing. Look, your house 00:27:23.460 --> 00:27:25.859 is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you 00:27:25.859 --> 00:27:27.980 will not see me again until you say, blessed 00:27:27.980 --> 00:27:31.240 is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Now, 00:27:31.259 --> 00:27:33.670 ironically. what's the thing that they said when 00:27:33.670 --> 00:27:37.269 he came in? Blessed is the one who came in the 00:27:37.269 --> 00:27:40.289 name of the Lord. Yeah. And, uh, and so like 00:27:40.289 --> 00:27:42.430 Jesus knows exactly what's going on here, but 00:27:42.430 --> 00:27:45.069 it's, uh, we, we may touch on the laments. I 00:27:45.069 --> 00:27:46.730 can't remember if that's in our, in our, in our 00:27:46.730 --> 00:27:48.990 notes, but we probably referenced them as we're 00:27:48.990 --> 00:27:54.109 going through either way. Um, but Jesus is coming 00:27:54.109 --> 00:27:56.349 in and I think that. The craziest thing about 00:27:56.349 --> 00:27:57.750 this is because you're talking about being light 00:27:57.750 --> 00:27:59.890 on a hill and coming back to the Sermon on the 00:27:59.890 --> 00:28:02.309 Mount. Jesus is literally going to a dark place 00:28:02.309 --> 00:28:04.710 to shine light. They're not going to appreciate 00:28:04.710 --> 00:28:06.470 it. In fact, they're going to kill him for it. 00:28:06.730 --> 00:28:09.410 But because of that, he's going to actually conquer 00:28:09.410 --> 00:28:12.210 the world, conquer sin, and light is going to 00:28:12.210 --> 00:28:14.309 continue to spread everywhere that he goes. Yeah. 00:28:14.430 --> 00:28:19.130 Right? He says, hey, you know, Jerusalem, you 00:28:19.130 --> 00:28:22.609 who stone prophets and kill those sent to help 00:28:22.609 --> 00:28:26.650 you. Yeah. I'm here. I've longed to gather you 00:28:26.650 --> 00:28:31.750 up. Yeah. Yeah. It's coming. Yeah. So this is 00:28:31.750 --> 00:28:33.809 the, this is the beginning until next time. I 00:28:33.809 --> 00:28:36.450 think the next, the next story we're going to, 00:28:36.450 --> 00:28:39.529 we're going to tackle the historically there's 00:28:39.529 --> 00:28:41.230 this conversation about doesn't happen twice. 00:28:41.269 --> 00:28:44.009 Doesn't happen once. It's the Jesus cleansing 00:28:44.009 --> 00:28:48.099 the temple. We're going to. approach this as 00:28:48.099 --> 00:28:50.500 it happening at the end of his ministry, because 00:28:50.500 --> 00:28:52.160 we're going to be referencing John. So if you 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:54.059 want to read ahead, go look at Jesus cleansing 00:28:54.059 --> 00:28:58.809 the temple. Yep. Until next time. 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