You can turn in your Bibles to John 12, John 12. We're talking about Palm Sunday today. We're celebrating, talking about the triumphal entry. And last week we were diving into Jesus, performing all of these messianic miracles.
And the word messianic means Messiah, and it was like traits of the Messiah. And so messianic miracles are expected miracles that the Jewish Messiah or the coming king for the nation of Israel. These miracles that he was going to accomplish and prove that he was actually the promised king. And so last week we talked about that.
We talked about how Jesus healed a man born blind. Jesus healed someone with leprosy. Jesus, he also drove out the demons of a mutant death person. And then he raised from the dead Lazarus.
And Lazarus was dead for four days. And so he was dead dead. And Jesus came and raised him from the dead. And so news was traveling fast, right?
Because if somebody's been dead for four days, that's going to hit social media. That's going to start trending on all of the social media accounts, and there's going to be a lot of action. And that was true in the first century, except minus the social media, right? So people are hearing about the miracles.
People are hearing about what Jesus is doing. And in John 12, there's about maybe a week or two after Lazarus rises from the dead. And we see he goes over to the same house, Mary and Martha in Lazarus house. So he shows up to their house.
Lazarus was kind of stinky the last time Jesus saw him. Right? Because he had been in the grave for four days. So Lazarus got all showered up, and they're having a party.
And Mary and Martha are throwing a party for Jesus to come in Bethany, in the town village of Bethany. They're hanging out. And what does Mary do? Mary extravagantly pours perfume all over Jesus and anoints him for burial.
And this gift, this extravagant gift, is scorned by Judas, who is taking care of the money, planning on betraying Jesus. And so that's what happens right at the start of John 12. And then I want us to pick up at John 12 verse 9. But really, I want to paint the picture of what I'm going to try to do, and then we're going to get into worship quick, okay?
What I want to do is talk through the triumphal entry. And what's up with the donkey, right? Why the donkey? Why the palm branches?
And why were they shouting Hosanna? And they're singing, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. What's the whole story? What's the backstory of that?
So that when we worship and we sing Hosanna, we actually understand the significance of it. Yeah? And so that we can have this like, oh, I know what I mean, what I'm singing, right? And so we're going to kind of work through some of those things and paint a picture of the biblical accounts of the triumphal entry, okay?
So as we dive in, I want you to know, there's four gospels, right? Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, all of them have the story of the triumphal entry, every single one. And they all take a little bit of a different angle. So you can read them in your own time.
You can notice the differences, or you can ask Chad TPT what the differences are. But so this is happening, what's just to bring you, if you're new to the Bible, just to bring you along the story. This is the last week of Jesus' life, okay? And it gets kicked off with Palm Sunday.
And on Palm Sunday, it's six days before this event called the Passover. And Passover is like a festival or a feast. It's basically like having a national holiday. It's like if we have Fourth of July, and it actually is very similar to Fourth of July, right?
The nation of Israel is celebrating their independence and their freedom from an oppressive government, okay? But it's not just a one day thing with a bunch of fireworks. It's actually a whole week of festivities because that's just kind of how God is. God likes full week parties.
He's like, he's about a day, but he likes actually seven day parties, all right? So that's what Passover is, and it's a celebration of this moment in Jewish history. Many of you are familiar with this, but I want you to listen to it. Jesus and all of the Jews are celebrating Passover.
And the way that they celebrate Passover is through Passover Seder. And it's this picture in a reminder, every single year that there was lambs, and this is from Exodus 12, okay? So if you wanna read in your own time, you can look at Exodus 12. And God, right when it happened with the Passover in Exodus 12, he said, I want you to do this.
I want you to practice this every year. And so that's what they're doing. And they're celebrating Exodus 12. What happened is Israelites, they're slaves, and they're seeking freedom from slavery.
Then you've got Pharaoh, Pharaoh's like, no, you're not gonna get free. God sends how many plagues? God sends 10 plagues, right? The 10th plague is I'm going to actually kill all of the first born boys of Egypt.
The way that you avoid having your first born son killed is actually by sacrificing a lamb, not just any lamb, but a sacrificial, pure, spotless lamb. And what you do is you sacrifice the lamb, and God commanded them, I want you to pour, or wipe and brush the blood of the lamb on the doorpost of your houses. So each family sacrifices a lamb. They take the blood and put it on the wooden, you hear me?
The wooden post. And then what happens is God's wrath gets poured out on the oppressors of Egypt. And the first born sons, remember Jesus is the first born son of God, the first born son of the Egyptians are killed. And if you had the blood of the spotless lamb, on your doorpost for your family, then you would be saved, right?
And then the Egyptians go, get out of here, we're done with you, you're free from slavery, and the nation of Israel is set free from slavery, and they go into the wilderness, and eventually into the promised land, okay? So what they're celebrating is freedom from slavery. They're celebrating forgiveness of sins, because the lambs have washed them from sins, so that they're delivered from wrath, right? Amazing stuff that they're celebrating, right?
And so they're celebrating Passover. And Passover is not like, hey, we're just hanging out, everybody in town, and we're celebrating the feast. No, this is like people come from all over. It's like a pilgrimage, and there's one to two million people that are added to the city of Jerusalem.
So we're talking about, I mean, there's no place in the end, right? There's no place in the hotels, motels, whatever it is, Airbnb is all filled up, because there's one to two million people that get added to Jerusalem. And so they're converging into Jerusalem, then you've got the Roman Empire. They're the occupiers, right?
So they're those that are causing pain and destruction, misusing their authority over the nation of Israel, and they're there going, uh-oh, all of these Jews are celebrating. It's just like if Great Britain was occupying in America right now. And we're celebrating the 4th of July, and we're like, it's gonna happen again, right? And we're celebrating, and all of the Great Britain police are in the streets, and they're kind of nervous, because everybody in the nation of Israel is going, it's gonna happen again, Passover's gonna happen again, God's gonna bring His judgment again, and we're gonna set free from the oppressors of Rome, right?
So they're uneasy, what does Rome do? They send in their head honcho pilot. He's the guy that's really gonna keep the peace. There's a couple guys that got fired from his role, Pontius Pilate knows what he's doing.
What is he doing on this day? He's coming in from the western side of Jerusalem, and he's riding a white horse. Victorious Pontius Pilate, right? And the Romans are celebrating Him coming into the city to keep the peace for Rome.
Jesus is getting set up on the other side of the city, on the eastern side, and He's not gonna ride a horse, right? And He's gonna ride from Mount of Olives into the city. And so we're gonna pick up in John 12, and I want you to read with me. Remember, there's one to two million people.
I mean, this is like Minnesota State Fair Zone, but way more. You know when you walk in the State Fair and you get onto the hill, see people from other states don't get it. I'm from Colorado, State Fair, do we even have one? It's probably in Pueblo, but I'll tell you this right now.
I'll tell you this right now. State of Minnesota gets it, when we're talking about like crowds of people, you go over a hill and then you see the masses, right? You guys know, right? That's what it feels like in Israel, okay?
It is not like, oh, a couple of people here. We are talking like full streets. Can you imagine Jesus comes into Jerusalem and the lines into the temple? And He's walking past all of these people trying to get into the temple.
It's packed. It's packed streets, okay. Here we go, John 12, verse nine, when the large crowd, large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there in Bethany. They showed up, not only on account of Him, but also they wanted to see the guy that He raised from the dead.
So the chief priests made plans to assassinate Lazarus and Jesus because on account of Him, many of the Jews were going away and they were actually believing in Jesus. The next day, which is Sunday, the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. Are you noticing the large crowd of a couple hundred thousand plus? Here's that Jesus is coming to Passover.
And what do they do? So they took branches of palm trees and they went out to meet Him, crying out, Hosanna, blessed is you comes and the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel. And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it just as it is written. If you're not daughter of Zion, behold the King is coming and sitting on a donkey's colt.
I want us to turn to Zechariah at nine here. Turn with me and your Bible says Zechariah at nine. So what's happening? Jesus wakes up after Mary's extravagant offering.
He is smelling of her extravagant gift. And it's so strong, he's going to smell like that all the way to the cross. He's smelling the extravagance the whole time. He wakes up, he goes to the Mount of Olives, and all of a sudden people start shouting a song.
They start chanting, they start saying, Hosanna, blessed is you comes the name of the Lord. And Jesus, instead of just going right into Jerusalem, he pauses on the Mount of Olives, right? He pauses on the Mount of Olives and he says, hey, two of you, go get a donkey and the donkey's colt. Mama, donkey and young donkey.
All right? He says go and do that. I don't know if you know this, if you look at the top of a donkey on its fur, it makes a cross. Have you ever seen that?
Have you never seen that? You gotta check that out on Google Images. Donkeys on their back, most of the donkeys have a cross right on their back. I think that's so profound.
God, from the foundations of the earth, creates a donkey's to have a cross on their back. So when Jesus looks down, he knows what he's going towards. My goodness. So he's on the Mount of Olives.
They're starting to shout Jesus down. Hosanna, there's people that are coming from all of the areas around Israel and Jerusalem. And even beyond. And they're coming into the city.
And they're kind of hearing the shouting. They're hearing the clamor. And crowds start forming as Jesus is waiting for that donkey. And so Jesus knows what he's doing.
Some prophecies, Jesus just fulfilled and he didn't have to intentionally do it. It just happened. But other prophecies, he intentionally fulfilled them. And that's what we're seeing in Zechariah 9.
This is written many years before Jesus was born. And it says this in Zechariah 9.9. Who Joyce greatly owed daughter of Zion. Shout aloud, ode daughter of Jerusalem.
Behold, your king is coming to you. Righteous and having salvation is he humble and mounted on a donkey. Yup, a king on a donkey, not on a horse. On a colt, the full of a donkey.
How do you say that? Full, that's right. There we go. I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim.
And the war horse from Jerusalem and the battle bow shall be cut off. And he shall speak peace to the nations. This king will rule from sea to sea, from the river to the ends of the earth because of the blood of my covenant with you. Jesus is fulfilling this prophecy.
They bring the donkeys to him. Then I want us to turn to Mark 11. So what's with the donkey? Well, the donkey is representing Jesus is coming as a different type of king.
On the other side of the city of Jerusalem, he's not coming like Pontius Pilate as a general and a warrior. He's not armed and in his soldiers attire. No, Jesus is coming as a king that is the prince of peace, riding into the Eastern Gate. And as he approaches the Eastern Gate, what's behind him is not just Bethany.
What's behind him is a city called Bethlehem. And Bethlehem is this area that's known for what? They're sheep. Bethlehem is known for their sheep.
How many of you know King David is from Bethlehem? What was King David doing when he was a kid? Taking care of the sheep. He was a shepherd, right?
And that's where all of the high priests would find the pure, spotless lambs. And so the high priest would go every single year to Bethlehem. He would select the lamb. And then he would bring through the Eastern Gate.
He would bring the sheep to the temple. We've got Jesus on the Mount of Olives. Now he's going to approach the same gate. Guess who he is?
He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Not just the sins of Israel, not just the sins and covering sins like the lambs, but he is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, right? What happens to the lamb when they go into the temple? What do they do for six days?
They get that lamb that shows in spotless lamb by the high priest. It goes through six days of being examined by the priesthood. It's examined to make sure that this lamb is actually spotless. What does Jesus do?
He goes into Jerusalem and he gets examined by all of the spiritual leaders of Israel. Then he starts giving woes to them. He starts speaking directly to them as they're trying to look at him and go, well, you're unrighteous in this way. And you're at fault in that way, right?
Same thing. Lamb of God gets examined. Comes out perfect. And here we are in Mark 11 here.
This is a different account. I told you that every gospel has a different account. Let's pick up in verse seven. This is after the cult has been found.
They brought the cult to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it. He sat down. And many spread their cloaks on the road. The other spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields.
And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, Hosanna, Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Blessed is the coming kingdom of our Father David, our shepherd king David from Bethlehem, right? This is one that's going to be in that same family line. Jesus was in the family line, the Davidic family line.
He was born in Bethlehem, Hosanna in the highest family in Jerusalem and went into the temple. So what's the deal with the palm branches? Why are they waving palm branches? Why are they laying the palm branches down?
What's happening? Why? In Leviticus 23, actually, let's just go there. Let's go to Leviticus 23.
Say you're there when you get there with an amen, huh? All right, some of you beat me there. Every year there was three pilgrimage feasts for Israel. The Passover feasts, which we're talking about.
And then there's the feast of tabernacles, feasts of booths. And then there's the feast of Pentecost, right? Those are the three feasts that the nation of Israel would converge into Jerusalem to celebrate. And the feast of booths or the feast of tabernacles is talked about in Leviticus 23, 33, 44.
But in this feast, what it's celebrating, so every single feast has a purpose of, like, why are we celebrating the feast? Why are we taking off work? Why are we taking so much PTO, right? We're taking so much PTO to celebrate this feast.
I want to know why I'm celebrating it, right? We already know what Passover is about. It's about freedom and deliverance and forgiveness and mercy. And then the feast of booths is all about God being the light.
God being our provider and God being the one who tabernacles or dwells with us. He's a manual. And the feast of booths, what they would do is they'd take a bunch of branches. They'd set up, like, temporary tents.
Who are you? Where are my campers? Big campers. Katie's a big camper.
Faster, Katie. Have you ever camped your entire life? For sure. We need to celebrate the feast of booths, right, babe?
But the feast of booths, what you'd do is is you would build a temporary structure and you would use palm branches to actually have over your roof for the whole week. So you're camping out. And it was to remind you of God dwelled with us in the wilderness when we didn't have a home. We didn't go into the promised land.
We were on the move, right? But God was with us. And he provided for us, and he was our light in the darkness, right? So that's a celebration of the feast of booths.
And it is a party, you guys. Feast of booths, feast of tabernacles is a good time. All right? There's like celebrating, well, let's look at this.
On the 15th day of the 17th month, when you gathered in the produce of the land, oh, it's a harvest feast, too. So it's like time to party because the harvest is here. You shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days. Let's go.
Not just one day, seven days. On the first day, shall be solemn rest. You've got to rest and sleep. On the eighth day, shall be another time of rest because you're going to party.
And you shall take on the first day, the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and bows of leafy trees and willows of the brook. And you shall rejoice before the Lord, your God, for seven days. So they're celebrating this feast of booths. And for both, OK, you guys got to hang with me.
Are you here with me? I know this is a lot of information. I know this is a lot of information, but it's all leading to us going crazy. All right?
And worshiping him because we just love worshiping him and having context of why. All right. So they start singing. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna. And that's from Psalm 118. Hey, this is a Bible study. We're going in on Psalm 118.
All right. So what's happening for these two feasts, the feast of taberna? Do you not? I got to remind you that you are part of a Jewish faith.
You guys are like, man, why are we talking about all these Jewish feasts? I'm an American. I thought I was a Christian. And now you're talking about Jewish feasts.
What are you? Some weird Jewish Christian? Well, we all kind of got grafted in to following the Jewish king. So we just kind of we come under that.
So as Gentiles, we go low because we want to learn. And we got a lot to learn about our Jewish king and his culture, right? I want to know him. I want to know why are we talking about all this?
Well, I want to know everything about him. I want to know what feast he participated in, all of the cultural things about him, where he went. What was the significance of the location where he went, when he went, how long it took him to go, and what it looked like on the road. I want to know all of it because I want to know him.
So you're kind of like, well, why all this history? Because it's about him. Oh, I love him and everything I can consume. I want it.
I want it, right? All right. I just needed that. I shot an arm even for me, right?
All right. So Psalm 118 is part of the Hallel Psalms. Everybody say, Hallel. The Hallel Psalms were Psalms 113 through 118.
And for all of those chapters in the book of Psalms, they were actually songs that the nation of Israel would sing on their pilgrimage into Israel. So there's people traveling for days and days and days, families traveling for days, whole family structures like cousins, second cousins, third cousins. How many of you have fourth cousins that you actually know? None of you?
OK. But they knew each other, right? And they're traveling together from long distances. We're talking days, weeks that they're traveling to Israel for these pilgrimage feasts.
And they would be singing these. Maybe you remember when you were on road trips, and there were songs that your family would sing in the car, right? These are the songs for the road trip. For everyone.
It's not just unique to your family. Every single family sang and chanted the same songs on their road trip, all right? And they would do it two times a year with the fissa boos and the Passover feast. All right?
Yeah. I'm not going to. I don't have any examples for you. They're trying to have me sing something.
I got nothing. Psalm 118. I want you to look at this. I want you to look at verse 25.
Verse 25, save us, we pray. In other words, that's what hosanna means. So in Hebrew, this is the same language. It's the same word.
It's hosanna. Hosanna is hosanna. But in Hebrew, hosanna. And it means save us now, right?
So save us, we pray, oh Lord, oh Lord, we pray. Give us success. Look at verse 26, this is exactly what we read in Mark and John. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
We bless you from the house of the Lord. And if you just keep on reading, I was just so powerful. It's ringing of the fissa boos, which is about light. And it's ringing of the Passover, right?
He's made us his light. He's made his light to shine on us. Buying the festival sacrifice with cords, or over time tradition, the interpretation of that word cords was actually got confused with palm branches. Buying the festival sacrifice with cords up to the horns of the altar where sacrifices were performed for the lambs.
You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will extol you. I mean, we're talking about the King that's also God. Give thanks to the Lord for he's good.
His steadfast love endures forever. All right, I want to just paint the picture for you guys. All the families, they're singing Psalm 113 through Psalm 118. Great, amazing.
But they really leaned in for the fissa boos into Psalm 118, 25 through 26. It was like a chant that they had. I remember I went to, how many of you guys are gophers fans? You're going to, what's a chant for the gophers?
I don't ski you ma or something like the sky you ma. Ah, come on. I have been a one gophers football game. It was with Pastor Ben.
It was so fun. We played Penn State, all right? And Penn State was good. I think they're like four to fifth in the country.
We were the underdogs for sure. And we beat them. And our receivers, they're catching everything, right? It was amazing.
It was the most amazing moment as a very weather gopher fan, like me. All right? And I didn't know this, but as we were leaving the game, we're walking out of the stadium, and we're walking down the stairs. And we're talking about, it's like a stadium filled, packed full of people, right?
Just like the roads in Israel. And everybody started chanting this celebration. We just beat Penn State. And everybody started chanting this little thing that everybody knew except for me.
And it was this chant. We hate Iowa. We hate Iowa. And I'm going, what is happening?
We just beat Penn State. And we're singing about how we hate Iowa. But everybody knew it. It was like, we do this every time we win a big game.
We start chanting about we hate Iowa. It's hilarious. All right? Why would they sing that?
I don't know. It's just like our rival. It's like we, it's a thing. Even though we play Penn State.
Yeah. I know. I felt the same way. OK.
It's kind of like that. No, I'm just kidding. Everybody knew the chant, right? And it was spontaneous.
It wasn't. Plan, it just happened. And that's what happened all throughout this moment with the triumphal entry with Psalm 118, 25 and 26. Jesus gets on to the Mount of Olives.
All of a sudden, the people that have been singing, and on the road, the road trip for days, they've been singing songs. But they hear about the miracles Jesus, the Messiah, the coming Messiah has been doing. And all of a sudden, they go, save us, hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. And it's a spontaneous chant.
This is our moment. Our deliverer has come. Maybe it's a prophet. Maybe it's King.
Maybe it's something more than that. But I just heard that he healed Lazarus on the fourth day. I just heard that he healed the blind man. I just heard that he healed the leper.
I just heard that he delivered the mutant death person. And this might be our moment as we converge into Passover and celebrate the deliverance from Egypt. Man, I hope it's for Rome too. And they start singing.
Hosanna, Hosanna, Jesus gets on the cold. They got palm branches reminding them of the Feast of Boost that he's the light. He's the provider. He's the tabernacular among us.
He's the Emmanuel, God with us. And they start taking up their palm branches. And they start singing the song again. Hosanna, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
What's the name of the Lord? The character of the Lord. Blessed is the King that will come that actually has a character like Yahweh, that has a personality like Yahweh, that has traits like Yahweh. That's somebody's name, right?
Their name is not just their name. Their name is the essence of who they are. They're going, could we have a King that would be have the character of the essence of Yahweh? Well, what do we learn?
Jesus is the exact image of the Father. He is the name. He is the character. He is the exemplification of who God is.
Man, you guys help me out there. Come on, nice getting. He exemplifies his character. Blessed is he who comes.
Blessed is the King who's coming, right? What happens in the temple? Jesus throws the tables in the court of Gentiles. He's going, this will be a house of prayer for all nations.
Clear out the way. There's Gentiles that I walk past on the road. They were bringing their lambs because every family is bringing a lamb for sacrifice. As Jesus is riding on the donkey, there's kids that are seven years old, holding spotless lambs for their family, going into Jerusalem to have sacrifices be performed.
There's people that are carrying money to pay for a spotless lamb in the court of Gentiles so they can offer a sacrifice. Jesus walks in, throws the tables to clear out space for every nation and every tribe and every tongue, like you and me, to be included. Then what does he do? He starts healing people left and right.
What happens after that? All of a sudden, a bunch of kids start singing the song that they've sung since they were born at the feast of boost and the feast of Passover. Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. They know the song and the kids start being the worship leaders in the temple.
All the religious leaders go, no, no, no, no, no. Shh. But the kids are more undignified than this like David and they're dancing and shouting and celebrating. This is the one that's gonna save us.
Look at what he's doing, right? This is the king that we're looking for. This is the king that we want. Turn in your Bibles to Revelation seven.
If Jesus had come, like some of those that had come before him, we would have just had some stories about a zealot king that conquered another oppressor of Israel. There's a season in about 100 to 200 years before Jesus was born where there is some revolts called the Maccabean Revolt, where Israel was being suppressed and oppressed by another empire. And this whole group called the Maccabees, they actually conquered some of the oppressor about 200 years before Jesus showed up on in the picture. And it was great, it was awesome.
There's a deliverance, that's why we have Hanukkah, because it's a celebration of the revolt, there's a celebration of freedom from the oppressors in Israel. But if Jesus had just done what was expected of him to be the general that comes and overcomes Rome, militarily, it would just be another story. It would just be another Maccabees moment, another story of breakthrough for the nation of Israel. But Jesus wasn't showing up to be a military leader, to disband the Roman Empire, to conquer Caesar, to overcome Rome.
He was in the business of conquering souls and hearts and restoring people to their original design, because what happens when they got set free from their oppressors the first time, they just still have a sickness in the soul. And Jesus is going, I gotta deal with the root issue. I'm not just wanting to set you free from the exterior oppressor, I'm wanting to set you free from you. I want you to set you free from the internal oppression of sin that's enslaving you.
I can set you free from Egypt, I can set you free from Babylon, I can set you free from the Solusus, but I can't set you free from you unless I pour out my blood on that mercy seat and I apply it to the wood posts like I did in Egypt. Jesus going, I'm on a mission that's different than what your expectation is. And it would have just been a story for Israel, but he's going, no, no, no, no, I'm not gonna win the hearts of Israel with military defeat. I'm gonna win the hearts of every tribe, nation, tongue and people through laying down my life as an act of love, God in the flesh, laying on a cross and giving myself as a ransom for many.
Look at Revelation seven, after this I look, this is John the beloved, one of Jesus' disciples and he has this vision, this encounter of a coming day that hasn't happened yet. After this I look and behold a great multitude that no one could number. From every nation, from all tribes and peoples and all languages. They were standing before the throne of a king and before the Passover lamb.
They were clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands. And they were crying out with a loud voice, Hosanna belongs, salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the Passover lamb. And all the angels are standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, all the worship leaders of heaven. And they fell on their faces before the throne and worship God, saying, amen, blessing, glory, honor, wisdom, thanksgiving, power, might.
Be to our God forever and ever. They shouted and chanted, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the first century. When Jesus was riding down the Mount of Olives, when he was in the temple, when he was waiting for the cult to show up. But there's a day coming at the end of the story.
There's a day coming where it's not just gonna be a couple hundred thousand Jews with palm branches. But it's gonna be a lot of Americans. It's gonna be a lot of Chinese. It's gonna be a lot of Chinese.
It's gonna be a lot of Americans. It's gonna be a lot of people from Palestine. It's gonna be a lot of people from Iran. It's gonna be a lot of people from South America.
It's gonna be a lot of people from Canada. A lot of people from Mexico, are you hearing me? And they're gonna be from every tribe, tongue, nation, people group. And they are going to wave palm branches.
And they are gonna be shouting the same chant, the same song that those little Jewish boys and girls knew by heart since they were little toddlers. And they're gonna say, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. And Jesus is going to split the sky and he won't be riding a donkey this next time. He's gonna be riding a horse.
And we have this marinathicry. Come Lord Jesus, we want you back. And until that day, we are going to year after year, do the same thing that they did, year after year and we're gonna sing the same songs until we actually see him face to face. And when we see him face to face, we're gonna sing it again.
Just like our little Jewish brothers and sisters that were singing it to King Jesus in the temple. Let's all stand. I wanna worship the Lord and respond together. As we worship together, we're gonna make sure the aisles are clear.
We might have the kids join us in here. But I wanna remind you that Jesus, he could have come differently, but he came as the light. He came as the deliverer. He came as the Passover lamb.
He came as the one that tabernacles among us. He is a manual. And there's something, there's a day in his heart, as we worship him. There's a day in his heart that is burning like an oven.
And he's got eyes like a flame of fire. And he has an ache and it's a desire to come home, to come home to the earth. He's not gonna take us up into some ethereal existence or eternity. He said, I wanna new heavens and a new earth that's a physical earth, it's a physical place.
And I'm coming back down. And in our hearts, Lord, we have this cry today. As we celebrate you on Palm Sunday, and we remember how you stood on the Mount of Olives and you look down at your city of promise. Jesus, we say that there's a day coming where you're gonna do the same thing.
And you're gonna ride on a horse in Victoria. You're not just gonna win our hearts. You're gonna win the nations to yourself. So Jesus, we honor you.
You've won our hearts. You don't want just a bunch of conquered foes. You want conquered lovers. You have conquered our hearts just like Rihanna Priest.
Many months ago, you've conquered us. And so we delightfully worship you in spirit and the truth. And we say, you're the Hosanna. You're the savior.
You're the one that comes in the name of the Lord. And you're worthy of all honor. You're worthy of all praise. You're worthy of adoration.
Oh, Jesus, we love you. Hosanna in the heart.