April 14, 2025 • 59 mins
Jesus was brokenhearted over what sin had done to his creation and how Jerusalem would miss their chance for true peace.
• Palm Sunday represented Jesus coming as the king of peace, riding on a donkey instead of a conquering stallion
• The word "Hosanna" means both "save us" and celebrates that salvation has come
• Our tears matter deeply to God – Psalm 56:8 says He collects them in a bottle and records them in His book
• Jesus offers prayers with "loud cries and tears" (Hebrews 5:7) as our high priest who understands our weaknesses
• God wrapped himself in flesh so the unholy could touch the holy and be transformed
• When we see sin against the backdrop of God's holiness, we understand true repentance
• Godly sorrow leads to salvation while worldly sorrow leads to death
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Rock Family Sermon of the Week.
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
I want to talk to you today, though I've really as
I've prayed just for two weeksnow really focused in oh God,
what do you want?
Here is Palm Sunday.
It was a day of celebration, itwas a day of blessed.
Is he who comes in the name ofthe Lord Hosanna in the highest,
one who brings peace, one who,at his birth, angels sang
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Hosanna in the highest.
Now man has put those words totheir language to decree.
The king is coming, but he'snot coming on a stallion.
He's not coming on a whitestallion as a conquering king to
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come and take possession of acity.
He's coming riding on a beastof burden, on a donkey.
He's coming as the king ofpeace.
He's coming to establish peace,but it's not peace at any cost,
but it's not peace at any cost.
There's not only a trail ofbrokenness that has gone before
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him, that has brought him tothis moment, but there's a trail
in the future that reaches outinto 2025, into this room, into
this auditorium.
There's a trail of tears.
See, if we don't understand theburden of Jesus, we'll never
appreciate the blessing of Jesus.
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If we never understand thebrokenness of Jesus, why, in a
few days, in four days later,would he gather that group of
disciples in an upper room andhe would take bread and he would
break it and say this is mybody which is broken.
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For you See, man, if we don'tget the brokenness of Jesus, we
love the blessing and I love theblessing, but it's a broken
road that takes you to a roadthat is blessed.
There's a lot.
There's a trail of tears.
I know in the 1830s we have adark blot.
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One of the dark blots ofhistory on our nation was the
trail of tears and just out of16,000 Cherokees, there were
4,000 that died of a brutaltrail that you can find it not
far from here and get on thistrail and remember.
But I'm not talking about thattrail of tears, but I'm talking
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about one that actually itstopped a parade and I haven't
been able to get away from thistoday.
So because I believe and here'swhat I'm praying I'm praying
that before you walk out of here, in these next few minutes, I'm
praying that if there issomething that the Holy Spirit
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starts to place his hand on, youdon't have to wait to an altar
call, man, if God starts movingon your heart and you're just
like God.
I just got to lay this at yourfeet.
I got to bring this to you.
There's an open invitation.
This house has always had anopen invitation.
I thank God for a pastor whobelieves in an altar, because
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this house was established withan altar.
This is not just a frill thrillplace with a TED talk, wanting
you to feel always better andooey gooey when you walk out the
door.
No, I want you to understandthat there's a life change.
There is a walk, there is aprecious tenderness of the
brokenness of God, the tear.
God cried for us so that wewould understand something.
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So I want to just take a fewminutes and talk with you about
this burden.
You say, wait a minute.
This was a celebration day.
It was, and the Saviorinterrupted a moment of praise
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when he started weeping over acity and over the moment it's
Sunday parade.
It initiates this holy week.
It's the days of observation,where the lamb would be observed
for four days, not only to seehis purity, but watch this, but
his passion.
Only to see his purity, butwatch this, but his passion.
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There was an estimate of over100,000 to 200,000 people lining
the streets and they wereshouting Hosanna to the son of
David Blessed is he who comes inthe name of the Lord Hosanna in
the highest.
He's fulfilling Zechariah 9.9.
Hosanna is the Hebrew word.
Actually, that means save us.
It goes a little deeper.
It means save us, we pray.
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It comes from hoshanna, whichis the Hebrew word, and it's
found in Psalm 118, 25.
It just says Lord, save us,lord, grant us success.
In the original in Psalm it wasactually a cry for help, like
someone calling out to God in adesperate need of rescue.
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But by the time of Jesus it hadtaken on a little more depth to
it and it became an expressionof praise and celebration.
It was acknowledging thatsalvation had come.
So when the crowds wereshouting Hosanna to the son of
David, here's what they weresaying Messiah, save us.
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And at the same time wecelebrate you because you're the
one who brings salvation.
So they're not only giving thisheart cry hey, come and save us
, but they're saying you're theone that's going to do it.
It was a powerful word becauseit holds both desperation and it
holds a hopeful worship thatare expressed together in one
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place, and here's the passageverse 39.
And some of the Pharisees in thecrowd said to him teacher,
rebuke your disciples for doingthat.
And he said I tell you, if theywere silent, the very stones
would cry out.
He said if you, with createdbreath, don't praise me, then
everything with creative DNAthat I created, from a rock to a
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plant, everything will startpraising if they don't praise me
.
And when he drew near, he sawthe city.
He wept over it, saying Wouldthat you, even you, had known
that on this day, the thingsthat make for peace, but now
they're hidden from your eyes.
For the days will come whenyour enemies will set up a
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barricade around you andsurround you and hem you in on
every side.
They'll tear you down to theground, you and your children
within you.
And he entered the temple andbegan to drive them out.
This was actually on the nextday those who sold.
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He was saying to them.
It is written my house will becalled a house of prayer, but
you've made it a den of thieves.
Lord, I ask you right now, inthese next few moments, would
you allow my tongue to be thepen of a writer, as I have asked
you for all of these years.
Somehow, lord, it's been such asweet presence of you in this
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place.
I thank you for everyone you'vegathered here, everyone that's
watching online.
God, I thank you.
Would you just give us aglimpse of your heart today?
And I ask it in the name ofJesus.
And everyone said and I ask itin the name of Jesus.
And everyone said it says hewept.
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What does that really mean?
The word wept means in theGreek to wail aloud.
It's to weep bitterly, tolament.
It is actually audibly sobbing.
It says in verse 10 of 19,.
Why is he doing this?
Because he said it.
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He came to seek and to savethat which was lost While he was
on a beast of burden.
Apparently, not only wasJerusalem on his mind, but you
were on his mind, I was on hismind, but you were on his mind,
I was on his mind.
So the cheering crowd, they'restopped by a crying Savior.
He's weeping uncontrollably,man, he's violently shaking.
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I've pictured this through theyears.
I've said this here.
On a Sunday like this, where Ican see all the crowd is going
berserk, it's a high praise day,man, I mean everybody, pastor,
brian, he's running everywhereand in the middle of the parade,
coming down the Mount of Olives, jesus looking over into the
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Temple Mount, that temple thatwas spearing up man.
It was standing tall.
It's like three times theheight of the Dome of the Rocks.
So when he came into that place, he's looking over into the
temple mount and he stops theparade and he begins to weep
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uncontrollably.
I can see Simon walking around,going.
Why has he stopped?
And he's thinking.
He's laughing, he's enjoyingthis.
The praise has gotten to him,man.
He's excited.
Why?
Because they're expecting himto come and annihilate the arm
of Rome off of their life.
They think their expectations.
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Have you ever noticed thatsometimes our expectations for
God in the moment may not be hisexpectation from us?
In the moment?
We want him to do this, thisand this, and we get offended
many times when God doesn't showup the way we expected him to.
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Actually, we get offended atchurches, man, when they don't
do all the things we expectedthem to do.
Maybe they missed your birthday, happy birthday.
Maybe they missed you being inthe hospital.
It could be because you nevercalled, but sometimes we can get
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so offended, man, but listen,don't live your life with a
fence, because if you live yourlife with a fence, you will have
a fence built up around you therest of your life.
No one can get in, no one cancome out, man, you are sealed
and the enemy's got you rightwhere he wants you.
And a spirit of offense willalways and this isn't even in my
notes, I just thought I'd throwthis in A spirit of offense
will always and this isn't evenin my notes, I just thought I'd
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throw this in A spirit ofoffense will affect every
relationship you will ever have,every one of them.
That's why let no root ofbitterness spring up in you, for
by it many would defileeverything in you.
One of the number one tools ofthe enemy is unforgiveness and
offense.
Amen, you're doing halfway good, preacher.
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We need you to not show upagain for about a month, and
then we'll all right, watch this.
He's weeping because they havemissed their visitation.
I remind you the word visitthere it means a personal
inspection, that God is comingface to face, eye to eye.
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He's inspecting what sin hasdone to his creation.
He did not send an angel totake care of this.
God said.
I'm wrapping myself in humanflesh, I'm going to inspect you
myself.
Not only will I inspect whathas happened from the moment of
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the garden that said, I want itmy way.
I'm going to inspect what ithas done to your body, what it
has done to your soul, your mind, your will, your emotions and
how your spirit was separatedfrom me.
I'm not coming to break theback of Rome, I'm coming to
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break the back of sin.
I am coming to restore you sothat you can now come in, find
fellowship with me and walk withme.
And let me walk with me and letme walk with you.
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But see, if we're not careful,praise can become flattery.
Without obedience, it canbecome praise.
That moment can be exciting andexuberant and I love it.
I'm not talking about today.
I'm not talking about.
I'm talking about what it canbecome in our life.
Praise without submission hasno power to break the back of a
burden or the brokenness thatwill not only welcome to your
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future.
If you've never been broken,there is always.
For all of us there's a brokenroad that will lead us to a
trail of tears that will alwaysput us in a moment where we say
I've got to have you.
It's a point of desperation.
But here they are.
But, jesus, we're praising you.
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Do what we want.
Come on, make Israel the lightof the world again.
Break the back of thiscolonialism, of this Romanism.
Break the back of thispersecution Break the back.
But God cries in the middle ofit because he realizes, in 70 AD
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, god cries in the middle of itbecause he realizes, in 70 AD,
jerusalem will be destroyed andnot one stone will be left upon
another.
Not only that historians, churchhistory says that, even through
Josephus, it is estimatedaround a million Jews are killed
during the insurrection andbecause Jesus prepared the
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church.
It is also believed that notone Christian died.
Million Jews are killed duringthe insurrection and because
Jesus prepared the church.
It is also believed that notone Christian died because they
fled to the hills understandingwhat was coming.
Here's the heartbeat.
Jesus stopped a parade becausehe was broken for who we are,
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and the amazing thing about thelove of God is you can't change
it but you can reject it.
But he gave us the ability fortears.
What are tears?
Tears are a universal language.
They provoke a question.
Typically, why are you crying?
Listen, when I first gotmarried and I moved my wife 12
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hours away from her mama inFlorence, alabama, her mother,
that LA, deep south southernwoman who didn't pronounce her
Oz, it was mother, father and Itook her away from her mother
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and I would wake up in themiddle of the night and she's
tears streaming.
Why are you crying?
She said I miss my mom.
So we would get in the carafter class On Friday afternoon.
I would drive 12 hours to gether to Florence, alabama, so
that she could spend a day and ahalf with her mother and get
back in the car and drive untilwe got in class at 7 30 on
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Monday morning.
You say, well, that waswonderful, that was a gentleman
of you.
No, that was called survival ofthe fittest.
But what are tears?
It actually, when your brainsenses something, an emotion or
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an irritation, it sends amessage to your lacrimal glands
and they make tears.
It's water plus oil plus mucus.
Yes, that's oil plus mucus, yes, and your eyelids spread them
all over your eyes.
The extra drains into your nose.
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There you go.
Your body makes three types oftears.
Watch this.
There are basal tears, alwaysthere, they're keeping your eyes
moist.
There types of tears Watch this.
There are basal tears, alwaysthere, they're keeping your eyes
moist.
There are reflex tears theyprotect your eyes from irritants
, like when smoke or onions.
It produces this reflex tears.
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But the third is emotionaltears and they are triggered by
feelings, whether sadness orhappiness or frustration, and
our emotional tears arechemically different than the
rest.
Studies show that emotionaltears actually out some of the
stress chemicals.
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It's like your body's naturalpressure release valve.
It also triggers a calmingeffect afterward.
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That's why often after you cry,you feel tired or you feel
relieved after you get a goodugly cry.
How many know what I'm saying?
So when we cry, we cry whenwe're happy, because our
emotions overflow.
Tears help our body balancethose intense feelings.
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Crying also strengthens socialbonds and triggers calming
signals to the brain.
Watch this.
It is your body's beautiful waythat God created you with.
That says in that moment, thismoment deeply matters.
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This matters.
Here's the truth.
Our tears matter deeply to God.
They're not signs of weaknessbut tokens of the heart.
They don't go unnoticed fromheaven.
They matter so much to God thathe keeps them.
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David would say Psalm 56, watchthis in verse eight God keeps
our tears.
You have kept count of mytossings.
Put my tears in your bottle.
Are they not in your book?
See, david is in distress here.
He's being hunted, he's anxious, he's afraid.
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Yet he finds comfort in thistruth that the word tossings
actually means wanderings.
It means restlessness ordistress.
It's describing the experiencethat someone has when they're
unsettled, like someone tossingand turning all night because of
anxiety, because of fear,because of trouble, and turning
all night because of anxiety,because of fear, because of
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trouble.
It captures the emotionalturmoil that David is feeling at
the moment and he's fled fromthis danger.
So what is the verse saying?
Here it is God sees everyrestless step you take, every
sleepless night you have, everyexile, every wandering, and even
keeps your tears.
Nothing is lost on him, nothingAncient meaning.
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He said I put your tears in abottle.
I know I've seen Dr Kevin has atear bottle.
I was gonna call him and askhim if I could borrow it so I
put a picture up.
But I knew he's doing 11 showsso I didn't fool with bothering
him.
But here it is.
They're different sizes,different sizes for different
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moments.
There are some moments in ourlife we cry a few tears.
There are others we fillgallons up because of the
anxiousness and the fear and theanxiety and because of the
things that are sent to steal,kill and to destroy us.
These bottles were often madeof glass or clay.
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People used them to expressdeep sorrow, grief and mourning.
Sometimes mourners wouldcollect their tears, place the
bottle in the loved one's graveas a symbol of love and
remembered sorrow.
Watch this, please.
I'm going somewhere with this,hear me.
It was a way of saying this mysorrow is real and it matters,
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and I'm keeping it close to me.
So when David says you have putmy tears in a bottle, he's using
a powerful message that saysthis Lord, you see every tear I
cry.
You care so much, you treasurethem as if collecting them and
keeping them close, none of mypain is ever forgotten by you.
It's not poetry, it is comfort.
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See, god notices our suffering.
He keeps a personal record.
Are they not in your book?
Even the tears we cry in secretare known and valued by him.
They are like a precioustreasure.
That's how much he loves us.
He even writes them in his book.
He documents.
Every moment of pain, everycelebration of joy are in his
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book.
They are never wasted.
They are never forgotten.
It was our tears that made himcry.
Hear me today.
Those who sow in tears willweep with songs of joy.
Those who go out with weepingcarrying seed to sow will return
with songs of joy, carryingsheaves with them.
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It says in Psalm 35, for hisanger endures but a moment, but
his favor lasts a lifetime.
Weeping may endure for a night,but joy comes in the morning.
Why?
Because he shares our tears,these earmarks, these moments,
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these recorded pains, thesecelebrated joys.
It says in Hebrews 5, 7, one ofthe most interesting passages
about Jesus that, I think, is inthe New Testament.
And here's what it says In thedays of his flesh, jesus offered
up prayers and supplicationswith loud cries and tears to him
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who was able to save him fromdeath, and he was heard because
of his reverence.
Look at his intercession.
See, I believe in quiet prayers.
Our Father, who art in heaven,hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom, come.
Thy will be done on earth as itis in heaven.
Give us this day our dailybread.
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I believe in that.
But there are some times yourpain takes on voice.
There are some times situationsare not silent and we never
picture Jesus as being loud.
I've been in Pentecostal prayermeetings where people were a
little uncomfortable.
They're like I, just like it alittle more quiet.
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Heaven is not quiet.
There is a time when the Lordis in his holy temple.
Let all the earth keep silent.
There is a time for that.
But there's a moment whensomething takes on in your life.
Listen, if the devil isattacking your family and you
are watching your children beinglacerated by the kingdom of
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darkness, it is not a littlequiet.
I'd like for the devil to justprobably please leave me alone.
No, there comes up something.
I bind you in the name of Jesus.
You have no authority over myfamily.
There comes a time you got tolift your voice.
You got to lift your eyes tothe hills, from where your help
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comes from.
Who was riding down on a beastof burden had nothing to do with
some king on a stallion.
It was a king on a donkey, on abeast of burden, coming to make
peace with God and man, becausehe would make peace between man
and God.
Is anybody with me today?
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Just hold on.
His prayer was not polished, itwas raw, it was real.
It was desperate.
When they couldn't find himearly in the morning, he had
gotten up before the break ofday and they're like where's
Jesus?
How did they find him?
He's in the dark.
They heard him.
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They heard him.
They heard him interceding onour behalf.
He was interceding for thebroken, for the hurting, for the
wounded, for the downcast, forthose that had been separated
from him.
Here is God in our midst and wedidn't recognize him.
We missed our day of visitation, where God was inspecting our
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life Eye to eye, face to face.
Let me tell you he has neverleft you, he has never forgotten
you.
He is still God.
That's why you're here today.
You're not here by accident.
You didn't just show up Becauseyou wanted to be somewhere.
No accident.
You didn't just show up becauseyou wanted to be somewhere.
No, god ordained you, he drewyou to himself.
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It's not that we find God.
I didn't find him, he found me.
I realized I wasn't evenlooking for him and he found me.
But his prayer was.
He wept over us our missedopportunities for peace, our
doubts, our fears, our emptysearches for significance.
Our power plays for positions.
That's why we can bring ourbrokenness.
I can bring my honest grief toGod.
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I can bring my joys, my wins,and I can bring all of the
failures.
He's moved with compassion.
It's his passion.
We are his passion.
You are the passion of God Forthe joy set before him.
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He endured the cross, despisingthe shame.
Who was the joy before him?
You, you.
I just want to remind you today.
You were not some cheap date.
You were the creation, theapple of his eye, the love of
his life.
You were the pearl of greatprice that the king would give
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everything he had so that hecould possess it.
You were a treasure hidden in afield that God would wrap
himself in his son.
He would come and give iteverything he had.
He would bankrupt heaven so hecould have the treasure for his
own.
You are that to him.
We don't have a high priest whois unable to sympathize with our
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weakness, but the one in everyaspect.
He was tempted, like we are,yet he was without sin.
But when he saw the multitudeshe was moved with compassion,
because they were weary and theywere scattered like sheep
having no shepherd.
He saw our brokenness.
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He saw our pain, completedeprivation, though through his
willingness he came to save theday, the one who was so holy he
could never be touched by whatwas unholy.
So the holy wrapped himself inflesh so that, for the first
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time, what was unholy couldtouch the holy and be changed.
Guys, can I just say that again, because there's something
about getting that, becausesometimes, thank God, none in
this house and other houses thatI know of that I'm connected
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with, I'm thankful.
But there's been a tendency thatwe have so painted such a
touchable God we have forgottenthat he is holy and that the
only way we can touch the holyis because that which was holy
came and wrapped himself inhuman flesh so that we could
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have an invitation.
But we must never forget thatit is our sin that is on the
backdrop of his holiness, of hisholiness.
Because we don't see our sin inhidden light of his holiness,
we will begin to justify thethings that violate his holiness
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.
Stay with me the one who was soholy, wrapped himself in human
flesh, came to us so that theunholy could be touched, could
touch and be changed by the holy.
When you look at the tears ofJesus, when you look at where he
wept, there were other, therewas, there was the word weeping,
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there was the word lamentation.
But this weeping, this loud,uncontained expression of a
heart that was broken, we findhim at the tomb of Lazarus.
It wasn't just the doubt thatcaused this type of cry, but it
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was also what death had done.
He's coming to control, he'scoming to dominate.
He's coming to dominate, he'scoming to win over death, hell
and the grave.
But he's at the tomb of Lazarusand it says he wept.
He wept with us.
He knew our pain.
He knew what it was when welost someone we loved dearly.
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He knew what it was when thingsjust fell apart.
He knew God.
Jesus came and wept with us,but he also this passage in a
moment we're going to finishwith this but in Luke 19, he
wept over Jerusalem.
He was weeping for us In theGarden of Gethsemane.
He would weep on behalf of us.
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Why?
Because he is now.
He's starting to become sin.
He who knew no sin became sinfor us so that we could have
this exchange and become therighteousness of God.
He's not a distant God watchingfrom afar.
No, he is still Emmanuel, godwho is with us.
He's a friend of the woundedheart.
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This phrase, though, this phrasethat he was heard because of
his reverent submission it'seulobia, it is a Greek word that
he's heard because of hisreverent awe and careful
devotion to the Father.
So, when Jesus is praying andhe's expressing it with loud
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cries and tears, he's heard bythe Father because he was
praying with such totalsurrender, not resisting God's
will in any way, but embracingit fully.
He said whatever the Father'stold me, that's what I'm going
to do Whatever he tells me tosay.
That's what I say.
I'm doing everything for thefame of your name, father.
Glorify your Son, that your soncan glorify you.
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It isn't out of panic ordespair, but it's out of holy
fear.
It's all-filled attitude.
Before his father, before a holyGod, he understood our grief.
He knows the weight of despair,the ache of unanswered
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questions.
He not only collects our tears,he's cried them himself.
He weeps for us as of today.
Today, palm Sunday, thebeginning of Passion Week.
He drew near into the city, hewept over it.
He approaches Jerusalem.
Are y'all with me?
Are y'all getting anything outof this today?
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Come on, I'm almost done.
He sees the city, blind to itssalvation.
He sees the coming destruction,the pain of rejection, and his
heart breaks.
He's not weeping for himself,he's weeping for us.
He's weeping for them, theirlost opportunity, for those who
are missing the peace.
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Would that you would have justknown the things that make peace
In the Greek.
It's where we actually get theword, the name Irene.
It means not just the absenceof conflict, but a wholeness of
completion.
It means harmony.
It is equal to the Hebrew wordshalom the things that belong to
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peace, the things that are ledtoward peace, the conditions
required for peace.
It is the way of peace whichtakes you to the way of
wholeness.
He's lamenting, he's crying.
If you'd only known the way oftrue peace, the conditions that
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bring harmony, restoration andsalvation.
But even as Jesus wept, he knewthe ultimate hope.
He wasn't weeping hopelessly.
He was weeping because hope hadcome.
Hope was here.
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It's why we have Palm Sunday.
Hope has arrived.
His tears were filled with hopethat some would yet see and
respond.
He would be so full of hopethat on the cross he would make
his first cry Father, forgivethem.
They don't have a clue whatthey're doing.
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His heart breaks for every soulthat turns away from him.
He has visited us.
He came for us.
I said it earlier, I didn'tfind him.
He found me, if you guys wouldcome the next day.
He's cleansing the temple.
He's actually dealing with thereligious spirit.
There's a lot of woes going on.
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I wish I had time to go throughevery woe and what he was he
was.
He was addressing everydistraction from what the temple
was all about.
It was to be a place of prayer.
It was to be a place ofcommunion.
It was to be a place whereencounter it was to be, a place
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where they found him, because hewas there and he runs, he
starts.
It's the second cleansing of thetemple.
One was at the beginning of hisministry and the other is at
the close of what he's about toaccomplish and he makes a
statement.
It's called the lament of Jesus.
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Lament is actually the samething as weeping.
It is to bewail.
It is to wail loudly with grief, to mourn publicly.
I got to see some of the chosenKind of the new that's in the
movies.
I've not gotten to see it yet,but I've seen some of the
trailer of that.
And I remember when Jesus is atthis point and he's rebuking
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them for the hypocrisy that theyclaim one thing and they live
another and what they havedislodged the ability for the
people to see a trail to God.
And the one, pharisee, isscreaming don't say that again.
He tries to counter Jesus'rebuke and tells him to be quiet
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Don't say another word.
And I love the phrase theybrought into this man.
They took a little liberty.
He said oh, I'm just gettingstarted, because if there's one
thing that the anger of God isturned toward, more than a
prostitute, more than what welabel such the grades of sin.
It is the hypocrisy of thosewho claim to know him, yet their
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lifestyle leads completelyastray the very thing that they
said of who he is and the verything that religion because
religion says you got to do this, do that, but the cross says
it's already done, it's alreadydone.
Oh, jerusalem, jerusalem, thecity that kills the prophets and
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stones those who are sent to it.
How often I've longed to gatheryou, like children together, as
a hen gathers her brood underher wings.
And you were not willing.
See, your houses have left youdesolate, they're empty.
There's no satisfaction,there's no fulfillment, for I
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tell you, you will not see meagain until you say Baruch habem
Hashem, adonai, blessed is hewho comes.
In the Hebrew form, itformulates a deep emotional
emphasis.
It is this wailing loudly withgrief.
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It's a cry of sorrow andlonging.
Like a parent mourning for alost child.
He's yearning to gather andprotect them, like a hen would
her chicks but listen?
But they would not let him.
He said I long, come unto meall you that labor and heavy
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laden, I'll give you rest.
How often is the response no,too busy, I've got too many more
classes to do.
God, they would not let him.
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It's a cry of sorrow andlonging.
It's why Jesus is called andreferred to as the man of
sorrows In Isaiah 53, 3,.
He was despised and rejected.
He was a man of sorrows.
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He was acquainted with grief.
He was a man who understoodpain and anguish and grief.
He was acquainted, he wasintimately familiar, not a
distant observer.
I go back to the place.
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God has visited us.
Isaiah 53, 4 says Surely, he hasborne our griefs, he has
carried our sorrows.
Yet we esteemed him stricken,smitten by God and afflicted.
He bore our griefs.
He suffered physically.
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He understood intense pain.
If you're here today and youman, your body has been wracked
with pain, you, your body has,you feel like nobody understands
, no one knows.
The medication can't reallynumb it.
He said I am acquainted withyour pain.
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I'm almost finished Emotionally.
He was rejected.
He was betrayed.
He was the king riding on abeast of burden to establish
peace.
And he says I know what it isto be rejected.
I know what it is to be walkedaway from.
I know what it is to beslandered and to be lied about.
I know spiritually he wouldcarry the weight of the entire
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world.
Second Corinthians, paul, wouldsay that the one who knew no
sin became that.
That's hard to comprehend.
That God would become the mostvile of sin that we could ever
imagine in our minds Because,see, to take it on, he had to
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become that.
Why did he do that?
Because he's a high priest whounderstands our weakness, to
identify with us, to redeem usand to heal us.
That through his kindness, hiskindness that leads us.
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Watch, here's the trail oftears.
His kindness leads us torepentance.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
His kindness, his kindness, jesus.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
His kindness that brings godly sorrow, sorrow that
is according to God's will.
It's the kind of sorrow that'sinspired by God.
It's the sorrow we feel when wesee our sin the way God sees it
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.
Listen, I'm closing.
I've closed four times.
I have three more to go, soplease don't turn off right now.
I'm the founding pastor.
I get to do that because I'llbe somewhere else next time.
No, I know a spiritual son andhe closes many, many times.
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It says that godly sorrowproduces repentance.
It's what leads us to salvationand it's not to be regretted.
But the sorrow of the worldproduces death.
See, what godly sorrow sees issin as an offense against God, a
loving God.
It's like a child A child notjust sad because it got caught,
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but brokenhearted because thechild hurt their parent.
See, sometimes we just we cometo God because we don't want the
consequences and we forgetsomething.
We forget what it did to him,we forget the backdrop.
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Listen, growing up as a kid Ididn't want the consequences.
They may be 84 and 83 right now, but I still feel the
consequences at age 60.
But the older I got, I became aparent.
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I'll never forget one day,sitting in a car out on
University Drive.
I had Alex with me in the car.
Alex could tell you his story.
Alex had been lying, had beenliving a lie.
I can only say that becauseI've heard his story.
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He tells it publicly, but hehad been living a lie.
He knew consequences of lying.
I used to tell my kids listen,I don't care what you, I don't
care, just don't lie to me.
I can probably handle anything,just don't lie to me.
And he was living a lie, to behonest with you.
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I got on a plane because he waseven traveling with a ministry
drumming all around the country,was even traveling with a
ministry drumming all around thecountry.
And when somebody walked in myoffice and exposed this lie, and
I'm like what?
And I wept like a child becauseit wasn't, it wasn't about
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consequences, it just ripped myheart out.
I'm like it was more thantrying to want to go discipline
him.
How do you discipline someonethat age?
How do you?
You're a man now.
What do I do?
I can't discipline, I can'tground you.
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You don't even live at home.
I can't pull my belt off, whichI wanted to.
I used to.
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I can't do that anymore.
I looked at Lisa and I said I'mgoing to go get him.
I jumped on an airplane and Iflew to Boston.
They were rehearsing for aservice.
I stood around back and hedidn't know I was coming In the
rehearsal.
He turns around and his dad isstanding there.
He said what are you doing here?
I said I know this is your lastservice.
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I just wanted to come and sitin the service with you.
He thought it was cool andafter the service I said hey, I
got a hotel room.
Grab your gear.
I said come on up, come andhang with me.
We're going to fly hometomorrow.
I bought you a ticket.
You don't have to ride in thevan, you can come and hang with
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me.
We get into the room.
We had eaten a nice dinner.
We came back the next morning.
I said hey, son, go take ashower.
We're going to go roam aroundBoston and then we'll fly home
tomorrow.
He goes and gets a shower andI'm sitting at the little table.
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He walks out and I said hey,get your clothes on, man, let's
get ready to go.
When he finally gets ready, Isaid come here now, sit down
with me.
I didn't come here to roamBoston with you.
I came to get you Because Iknow the lie you've been living
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in and I didn't mean to.
I didn't.
But it broke my heart andbefore I could stop myself
because I didn't want tomanipulate this moment, I didn't
want to do something that butbefore I could stop myself it
was an ugly cry.
It was just an emotion that hadjust released from me like a
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river.
I couldn't even see his facebecause the tears were running
so down my face.
I had no idea what his response.
I didn't know if he's going toget up and go walk away.
I didn't know if he's going totell me forget this, dad.
I didn't know, becausesometimes when you're caught,
you'll either fright flight, youwill do something to try to get
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out of the consequences.
This had nothing to do withconsequences.
It had everything to do withthe broken father's heart.
It had everything to do with abroken father's heart Because I
knew what that could cost him.
I had never felt I had beforebut, I, had never really.
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There was something thathappened that day, not only in
me, but I watched my son turnand I watched him fall on the
floor, and it wasn't because ofwhat he had done.
It was how he had broken hisfather's heart.
I believe God is going to senda move of his presence to our
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nation.
We are in a window.
We better not spoil or soilthis.
But one thing he will restoreand that is a broken and
contrite spirit.
He never despises contritespirit.
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He never despises.
It is the tears of Jesus thatbroke his heart for what sin had
done.
And until we see the sin that ison the backdrop of his holiness
, it's deeper than a hell of hisholiness.
It's deeper than a hell, it'sstronger, it's more than just a
consequence of eternal damnation.
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There comes a moment when youreyes are open and you look and
you realize how he has loved me,how he cares For God, so loved
the world.
He gave his only begotten sonmy prayer for this resurrection
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week, on this day when a paradewas shut down, a parade of
shouts for a weeping Savior.
He wants you to know.
He knows right where you are.
He cares for you.
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He wants you to know.
He knows right where you are.
He cares for you.
That's why you can throw yourcare on him.
He cares for you.
Father, thank you for your wordtoday.
That's why you told us torepent, be converted, so that
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our sins are blotted out.
That's when times of refreshingcome.
The day will come where youwill wipe away every tear from
our eyes.
As an old hymn, an old gospelsong, used to say tears would
never stain the streets of thatcity.
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You were able to save to theuttermost because who draw near
to God through Jesus, since youalways live to make intercession
for us, thank you God.
Since you always live to makeintercession for us, thank you
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God.
Thank you, I pray.
Today there would be arevelation the eyes of
understanding, to be open.
Look what God has done for me.
He established peace with Godand man, man and God, even man
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to man.
You are the Prince of Peace.
You are the Prince of Peace.
You're the one who forevermakes intercession for us.
No one looking around just fora moment would say you know what
, rusty?
All I can say is that's me.
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I'm not gonna try to definewhat that means, but you would
say you have no idea where I'mat, what I've walked through.
You have no idea what it tookto even get up and get here
today.
If this was only for me today,if it was just for one other, I
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believe he wants to remind us heweeps, wants to remind us he
weeps, the tears are notunnoticed.
He has bottled, he hasdocumented, but he is also
redeemed.
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And if you're here today andsay that's me, lift your hand
right now, all over this place.
I want to pray for you.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,yes, someone else lift your hand
.
I just want to pray for you.
Yes, yes, yes yes, yes, yes inthe balcony.
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Yes, yes, anyone else, that's me, rusty.
Pray for me in the balcony.
Yes, yes, anyone else, that'sme, rusty.
Pray for me, yes, yes, here'swhat I want to do.
I want Pastor Brian just tobegin to sing.
When he begins to sing, I justwant you.
I'm going to pray for you rightnow.
You don't have to leave here.
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The way you came.
You see, the days of inspectionof the lamb, hear me, it was to
see the purity that he was alamb without spot, without
wrinkle, because only that lambcould be chosen to be placed on
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the doorpost.
It was the remembrance of beingdelivered from Egypt.
There were great wailing wouldbe heard for those who did not
apply the blood.
He would be this observationmoment, inspection why?
Because he is the lamb whotakes away the sin of the world.
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These are days it's called HolyWeek for a reason because we are
about to walk in the veryfootsteps, watching Jesus take
the trail of tears all the wayto the cross to be able to
finally declare to Telestai itis finished.
And three days later, rise.
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And because I live, you shalllive also.
Maybe that's the reason fortoday, but there were hands that
went up all over this place,father, I pray for these today.
I pray for all of us that as westep into this holy week, god,
let us be cautious how we walk.
Let us, lord, be intentional.
Let us remember redemption isfree, but it was never cheap,
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and you wept for me, you lovedme with an everlasting love and
Lord.
It makes the resurrection somuch more amazing Because you
are the resurrection and thelife, and if I just believe in
you, though I were dead yet I'mliving.
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Bless them today as PastorBrian begins to sing and we
stand.
If you lifted your hand, comeand find an altar right here, if
you would.
The end of the story of my sonAt probably 26 years of age.
He flew back to California, hesubmitted himself into a
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discipleship plan and program ofYWAM and I watched the
prophetic anointing come on, myson.
You know why Truth set you free.
Truth set you free, and he'swatching today and I just want
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to tell you, alex, as all of mychildren, I'm so proud of you.
But that moment I shared today,I am so proud of you son walk
intentionally.
Truth frees you.
Walk intentionally.
Truth frees you.
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Doesn't matter what kind ofhome you grow up in.
What matters is the life ofsurrender.
It's more than just flattery,it's obedience For your eyes
only.
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Thank you for loving me.
Could you lift your hands onemore time?
I'm going to bless you as wewalk out this holy week.
I pray it brings joy.
If you're weeping, guess whatJoy comes in the morning.
There's a joy unspeakable andfull of glory.
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That's what resurrection brings.
Father, thank you for today,thank you for every life, thank
you for this moment, thank youfor this house.
I thank you for what you'redoing and I thank you for a week
.
I thank you for what you'redoing and I thank you for a week
.
Lord, we can't wait, of all thethings, from Friday night there
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at the Orient.
God, thank you for a night ofworship, thank you for a
gathering of families andwatching our children have fun.
And, lord, I thank you forResurrection Sunday.
I pray for souls.
I pray for those that haven'teven considered walking into the
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doors of a church.
Lord, let them come on Sunday,because someone went and got
them and invited them and saidhey, we're going to go to lunch
afterwards, and I pray theywould encounter a holy God, one
who wept for us so that he couldredeem us.
Call us by name and I say overyou today, church, the Lord
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bless you and keep you.
May the Lord make his face toshine on you and to be gracious
to you.
May the Lord lift up hiscountenance on you, give you
peace, write his name on you andsay you belong to me.
I bless you today.
Speaker 1 (58:37):
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I want to talk to you today, though I've really as
I've prayed just for two weeksnow really focused in oh God,
what do you want?
Here is Palm Sunday.
It was a day of celebration, itwas a day of blessed.
Is he who comes in the name ofthe Lord Hosanna in the highest,
one who brings peace, one who,at his birth, angels sang
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Hosanna in the highest.
Now man has put those words totheir language to decree.
The king is coming, but he'snot coming on a stallion.
He's not coming on a whitestallion as a conquering king to
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come and take possession of acity.
He's coming riding on a beastof burden, on a donkey.
He's coming as the king ofpeace.
He's coming to establish peace,but it's not peace at any cost,
but it's not peace at any cost.
There's not only a trail ofbrokenness that has gone before
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him, that has brought him tothis moment, but there's a trail
in the future that reaches outinto 2025, into this room, into
this auditorium.
There's a trail of tears.
See, if we don't understand theburden of Jesus, we'll never
appreciate the blessing of Jesus.
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If we never understand thebrokenness of Jesus, why, in a
few days, in four days later,would he gather that group of
disciples in an upper room andhe would take bread and he would
break it and say this is mybody which is broken.
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For you See, man, if we don'tget the brokenness of Jesus, we
love the blessing and I love theblessing, but it's a broken
road that takes you to a roadthat is blessed.
There's a lot.
There's a trail of tears.
I know in the 1830s we have adark blot.
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One of the dark blots ofhistory on our nation was the
trail of tears and just out of16,000 Cherokees, there were
4,000 that died of a brutaltrail that you can find it not
far from here and get on thistrail and remember.
But I'm not talking about thattrail of tears, but I'm talking
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about one that actually itstopped a parade and I haven't
been able to get away from thistoday.
So because I believe and here'swhat I'm praying I'm praying
that before you walk out of here, in these next few minutes, I'm
praying that if there issomething that the Holy Spirit
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starts to place his hand on, youdon't have to wait to an altar
call, man, if God starts movingon your heart and you're just
like God.
I just got to lay this at yourfeet.
I got to bring this to you.
There's an open invitation.
This house has always had anopen invitation.
I thank God for a pastor whobelieves in an altar, because
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this house was established withan altar.
This is not just a frill thrillplace with a TED talk, wanting
you to feel always better andooey gooey when you walk out the
door.
No, I want you to understandthat there's a life change.
There is a walk, there is aprecious tenderness of the
brokenness of God, the tear.
God cried for us so that wewould understand something.
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So I want to just take a fewminutes and talk with you about
this burden.
You say, wait a minute.
This was a celebration day.
It was, and the Saviorinterrupted a moment of praise
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when he started weeping over acity and over the moment it's
Sunday parade.
It initiates this holy week.
It's the days of observation,where the lamb would be observed
for four days, not only to seehis purity, but watch this, but
his passion.
Only to see his purity, butwatch this, but his passion.
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There was an estimate of over100,000 to 200,000 people lining
the streets and they wereshouting Hosanna to the son of
David Blessed is he who comes inthe name of the Lord Hosanna in
the highest.
He's fulfilling Zechariah 9.9.
Hosanna is the Hebrew word.
Actually, that means save us.
It goes a little deeper.
It means save us, we pray.
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It comes from hoshanna, whichis the Hebrew word, and it's
found in Psalm 118, 25.
It just says Lord, save us,lord, grant us success.
In the original in Psalm it wasactually a cry for help, like
someone calling out to God in adesperate need of rescue.
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But by the time of Jesus it hadtaken on a little more depth to
it and it became an expressionof praise and celebration.
It was acknowledging thatsalvation had come.
So when the crowds wereshouting Hosanna to the son of
David, here's what they weresaying Messiah, save us.
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And at the same time wecelebrate you because you're the
one who brings salvation.
So they're not only giving thisheart cry hey, come and save us
, but they're saying you're theone that's going to do it.
It was a powerful word becauseit holds both desperation and it
holds a hopeful worship thatare expressed together in one
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place, and here's the passageverse 39.
And some of the Pharisees in thecrowd said to him teacher,
rebuke your disciples for doingthat.
And he said I tell you, if theywere silent, the very stones
would cry out.
He said if you, with createdbreath, don't praise me, then
everything with creative DNAthat I created, from a rock to a
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plant, everything will startpraising if they don't praise me
.
And when he drew near, he sawthe city.
He wept over it, saying Wouldthat you, even you, had known
that on this day, the thingsthat make for peace, but now
they're hidden from your eyes.
For the days will come whenyour enemies will set up a
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barricade around you andsurround you and hem you in on
every side.
They'll tear you down to theground, you and your children
within you.
And he entered the temple andbegan to drive them out.
This was actually on the nextday those who sold.
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He was saying to them.
It is written my house will becalled a house of prayer, but
you've made it a den of thieves.
Lord, I ask you right now, inthese next few moments, would
you allow my tongue to be thepen of a writer, as I have asked
you for all of these years.
Somehow, lord, it's been such asweet presence of you in this
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place.
I thank you for everyone you'vegathered here, everyone that's
watching online.
God, I thank you.
Would you just give us aglimpse of your heart today?
And I ask it in the name ofJesus.
And everyone said and I ask itin the name of Jesus.
And everyone said it says hewept.
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What does that really mean?
The word wept means in theGreek to wail aloud.
It's to weep bitterly, tolament.
It is actually audibly sobbing.
It says in verse 10 of 19,.
Why is he doing this?
Because he said it.
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He came to seek and to savethat which was lost While he was
on a beast of burden.
Apparently, not only wasJerusalem on his mind, but you
were on his mind, I was on hismind, but you were on his mind,
I was on his mind.
So the cheering crowd, they'restopped by a crying Savior.
He's weeping uncontrollably,man, he's violently shaking.
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I've pictured this through theyears.
I've said this here.
On a Sunday like this, where Ican see all the crowd is going
berserk, it's a high praise day,man, I mean everybody, pastor,
brian, he's running everywhereand in the middle of the parade,
coming down the Mount of Olives, jesus looking over into the
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Temple Mount, that temple thatwas spearing up man.
It was standing tall.
It's like three times theheight of the Dome of the Rocks.
So when he came into that place, he's looking over into the
temple mount and he stops theparade and he begins to weep
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uncontrollably.
I can see Simon walking around,going.
Why has he stopped?
And he's thinking.
He's laughing, he's enjoyingthis.
The praise has gotten to him,man.
He's excited.
Why?
Because they're expecting himto come and annihilate the arm
of Rome off of their life.
They think their expectations.
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Have you ever noticed thatsometimes our expectations for
God in the moment may not be hisexpectation from us?
In the moment?
We want him to do this, thisand this, and we get offended
many times when God doesn't showup the way we expected him to.
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Actually, we get offended atchurches, man, when they don't
do all the things we expectedthem to do.
Maybe they missed your birthday, happy birthday.
Maybe they missed you being inthe hospital.
It could be because you nevercalled, but sometimes we can get
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so offended, man, but listen,don't live your life with a
fence, because if you live yourlife with a fence, you will have
a fence built up around you therest of your life.
No one can get in, no one cancome out, man, you are sealed
and the enemy's got you rightwhere he wants you.
And a spirit of offense willalways and this isn't even in my
notes, I just thought I'd throwthis in A spirit of offense
will always and this isn't evenin my notes, I just thought I'd
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throw this in A spirit ofoffense will affect every
relationship you will ever have,every one of them.
That's why let no root ofbitterness spring up in you, for
by it many would defileeverything in you.
One of the number one tools ofthe enemy is unforgiveness and
offense.
Amen, you're doing halfway good, preacher.
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We need you to not show upagain for about a month, and
then we'll all right, watch this.
He's weeping because they havemissed their visitation.
I remind you the word visitthere it means a personal
inspection, that God is comingface to face, eye to eye.
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He's inspecting what sin hasdone to his creation.
He did not send an angel totake care of this.
God said.
I'm wrapping myself in humanflesh, I'm going to inspect you
myself.
Not only will I inspect whathas happened from the moment of
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the garden that said, I want itmy way.
I'm going to inspect what ithas done to your body, what it
has done to your soul, your mind, your will, your emotions and
how your spirit was separatedfrom me.
I'm not coming to break theback of Rome, I'm coming to
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break the back of sin.
I am coming to restore you sothat you can now come in, find
fellowship with me and walk withme.
And let me walk with me and letme walk with you.
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But see, if we're not careful,praise can become flattery.
Without obedience, it canbecome praise.
That moment can be exciting andexuberant and I love it.
I'm not talking about today.
I'm not talking about.
I'm talking about what it canbecome in our life.
Praise without submission hasno power to break the back of a
burden or the brokenness thatwill not only welcome to your
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future.
If you've never been broken,there is always.
For all of us there's a brokenroad that will lead us to a
trail of tears that will alwaysput us in a moment where we say
I've got to have you.
It's a point of desperation.
But here they are.
But, jesus, we're praising you.
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Do what we want.
Come on, make Israel the lightof the world again.
Break the back of thiscolonialism, of this Romanism.
Break the back of thispersecution Break the back.
But God cries in the middle ofit because he realizes, in 70 AD
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, god cries in the middle of itbecause he realizes, in 70 AD,
jerusalem will be destroyed andnot one stone will be left upon
another.
Not only that historians, churchhistory says that, even through
Josephus, it is estimatedaround a million Jews are killed
during the insurrection andbecause Jesus prepared the
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church.
It is also believed that notone Christian died.
Million Jews are killed duringthe insurrection and because
Jesus prepared the church.
It is also believed that notone Christian died because they
fled to the hills understandingwhat was coming.
Here's the heartbeat.
Jesus stopped a parade becausehe was broken for who we are,
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and the amazing thing about thelove of God is you can't change
it but you can reject it.
But he gave us the ability fortears.
What are tears?
Tears are a universal language.
They provoke a question.
Typically, why are you crying?
Listen, when I first gotmarried and I moved my wife 12
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hours away from her mama inFlorence, alabama, her mother,
that LA, deep south southernwoman who didn't pronounce her
Oz, it was mother, father and Itook her away from her mother
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and I would wake up in themiddle of the night and she's
tears streaming.
Why are you crying?
She said I miss my mom.
So we would get in the carafter class On Friday afternoon.
I would drive 12 hours to gether to Florence, alabama, so
that she could spend a day and ahalf with her mother and get
back in the car and drive untilwe got in class at 7 30 on
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Monday morning.
You say, well, that waswonderful, that was a gentleman
of you.
No, that was called survival ofthe fittest.
But what are tears?
It actually, when your brainsenses something, an emotion or
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an irritation, it sends amessage to your lacrimal glands
and they make tears.
It's water plus oil plus mucus.
Yes, that's oil plus mucus, yes, and your eyelids spread them
all over your eyes.
The extra drains into your nose.
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There you go.
Your body makes three types oftears.
Watch this.
There are basal tears, alwaysthere, they're keeping your eyes
moist.
There types of tears Watch this.
There are basal tears, alwaysthere, they're keeping your eyes
moist.
There are reflex tears theyprotect your eyes from irritants
, like when smoke or onions.
It produces this reflex tears.
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But the third is emotionaltears and they are triggered by
feelings, whether sadness orhappiness or frustration, and
our emotional tears arechemically different than the
rest.
Studies show that emotionaltears actually out some of the
stress chemicals.
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It's like your body's naturalpressure release valve.
It also triggers a calmingeffect afterward.
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That's why often after you cry,you feel tired or you feel
relieved after you get a goodugly cry.
How many know what I'm saying?
So when we cry, we cry whenwe're happy, because our
emotions overflow.
Tears help our body balancethose intense feelings.
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Crying also strengthens socialbonds and triggers calming
signals to the brain.
Watch this.
It is your body's beautiful waythat God created you with.
That says in that moment, thismoment deeply matters.
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This matters.
Here's the truth.
Our tears matter deeply to God.
They're not signs of weaknessbut tokens of the heart.
They don't go unnoticed fromheaven.
They matter so much to God thathe keeps them.
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David would say Psalm 56, watchthis in verse eight God keeps
our tears.
You have kept count of mytossings.
Put my tears in your bottle.
Are they not in your book?
See, david is in distress here.
He's being hunted, he's anxious, he's afraid.
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Yet he finds comfort in thistruth that the word tossings
actually means wanderings.
It means restlessness ordistress.
It's describing the experiencethat someone has when they're
unsettled, like someone tossingand turning all night because of
anxiety, because of fear,because of trouble, and turning
all night because of anxiety,because of fear, because of
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trouble.
It captures the emotionalturmoil that David is feeling at
the moment and he's fled fromthis danger.
So what is the verse saying?
Here it is God sees everyrestless step you take, every
sleepless night you have, everyexile, every wandering, and even
keeps your tears.
Nothing is lost on him, nothingAncient meaning.
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He said I put your tears in abottle.
I know I've seen Dr Kevin has atear bottle.
I was gonna call him and askhim if I could borrow it so I
put a picture up.
But I knew he's doing 11 showsso I didn't fool with bothering
him.
But here it is.
They're different sizes,different sizes for different
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moments.
There are some moments in ourlife we cry a few tears.
There are others we fillgallons up because of the
anxiousness and the fear and theanxiety and because of the
things that are sent to steal,kill and to destroy us.
These bottles were often madeof glass or clay.
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People used them to expressdeep sorrow, grief and mourning.
Sometimes mourners wouldcollect their tears, place the
bottle in the loved one's graveas a symbol of love and
remembered sorrow.
Watch this, please.
I'm going somewhere with this,hear me.
It was a way of saying this mysorrow is real and it matters,
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and I'm keeping it close to me.
So when David says you have putmy tears in a bottle, he's using
a powerful message that saysthis Lord, you see every tear I
cry.
You care so much, you treasurethem as if collecting them and
keeping them close, none of mypain is ever forgotten by you.
It's not poetry, it is comfort.
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See, god notices our suffering.
He keeps a personal record.
Are they not in your book?
Even the tears we cry in secretare known and valued by him.
They are like a precioustreasure.
That's how much he loves us.
He even writes them in his book.
He documents.
Every moment of pain, everycelebration of joy are in his
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book.
They are never wasted.
They are never forgotten.
It was our tears that made himcry.
Hear me today.
Those who sow in tears willweep with songs of joy.
Those who go out with weepingcarrying seed to sow will return
with songs of joy, carryingsheaves with them.
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It says in Psalm 35, for hisanger endures but a moment, but
his favor lasts a lifetime.
Weeping may endure for a night,but joy comes in the morning.
Why?
Because he shares our tears,these earmarks, these moments,
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these recorded pains, thesecelebrated joys.
It says in Hebrews 5, 7, one ofthe most interesting passages
about Jesus that, I think, is inthe New Testament.
And here's what it says In thedays of his flesh, jesus offered
up prayers and supplicationswith loud cries and tears to him
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who was able to save him fromdeath, and he was heard because
of his reverence.
Look at his intercession.
See, I believe in quiet prayers.
Our Father, who art in heaven,hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom, come.
Thy will be done on earth as itis in heaven.
Give us this day our dailybread.
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I believe in that.
But there are some times yourpain takes on voice.
There are some times situationsare not silent and we never
picture Jesus as being loud.
I've been in Pentecostal prayermeetings where people were a
little uncomfortable.
They're like I, just like it alittle more quiet.
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Heaven is not quiet.
There is a time when the Lordis in his holy temple.
Let all the earth keep silent.
There is a time for that.
But there's a moment whensomething takes on in your life.
Listen, if the devil isattacking your family and you
are watching your children beinglacerated by the kingdom of
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darkness, it is not a littlequiet.
I'd like for the devil to justprobably please leave me alone.
No, there comes up something.
I bind you in the name of Jesus.
You have no authority over myfamily.
There comes a time you got tolift your voice.
You got to lift your eyes tothe hills, from where your help
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comes from.
Who was riding down on a beastof burden had nothing to do with
some king on a stallion.
It was a king on a donkey, on abeast of burden, coming to make
peace with God and man, becausehe would make peace between man
and God.
Is anybody with me today?
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Just hold on.
His prayer was not polished, itwas raw, it was real.
It was desperate.
When they couldn't find himearly in the morning, he had
gotten up before the break ofday and they're like where's
Jesus?
How did they find him?
He's in the dark.
They heard him.
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They heard him.
They heard him interceding onour behalf.
He was interceding for thebroken, for the hurting, for the
wounded, for the downcast, forthose that had been separated
from him.
Here is God in our midst and wedidn't recognize him.
We missed our day of visitation, where God was inspecting our
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life Eye to eye, face to face.
Let me tell you he has neverleft you, he has never forgotten
you.
He is still God.
That's why you're here today.
You're not here by accident.
You didn't just show up Becauseyou wanted to be somewhere.
No accident.
You didn't just show up becauseyou wanted to be somewhere.
No, god ordained you, he drewyou to himself.
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It's not that we find God.
I didn't find him, he found me.
I realized I wasn't evenlooking for him and he found me.
But his prayer was.
He wept over us our missedopportunities for peace, our
doubts, our fears, our emptysearches for significance.
Our power plays for positions.
That's why we can bring ourbrokenness.
I can bring my honest grief toGod.
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I can bring my joys, my wins,and I can bring all of the
failures.
He's moved with compassion.
It's his passion.
We are his passion.
You are the passion of God Forthe joy set before him.
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He endured the cross, despisingthe shame.
Who was the joy before him?
You, you.
I just want to remind you today.
You were not some cheap date.
You were the creation, theapple of his eye, the love of
his life.
You were the pearl of greatprice that the king would give
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everything he had so that hecould possess it.
You were a treasure hidden in afield that God would wrap
himself in his son.
He would come and give iteverything he had.
He would bankrupt heaven so hecould have the treasure for his
own.
You are that to him.
We don't have a high priest whois unable to sympathize with our
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weakness, but the one in everyaspect.
He was tempted, like we are,yet he was without sin.
But when he saw the multitudeshe was moved with compassion,
because they were weary and theywere scattered like sheep
having no shepherd.
He saw our brokenness.
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He saw our pain, completedeprivation, though through his
willingness he came to save theday, the one who was so holy he
could never be touched by whatwas unholy.
So the holy wrapped himself inflesh so that, for the first
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time, what was unholy couldtouch the holy and be changed.
Guys, can I just say that again, because there's something
about getting that, becausesometimes, thank God, none in
this house and other houses thatI know of that I'm connected
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with, I'm thankful.
But there's been a tendency thatwe have so painted such a
touchable God we have forgottenthat he is holy and that the
only way we can touch the holyis because that which was holy
came and wrapped himself inhuman flesh so that we could
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have an invitation.
But we must never forget thatit is our sin that is on the
backdrop of his holiness, of hisholiness.
Because we don't see our sin inhidden light of his holiness,
we will begin to justify thethings that violate his holiness
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.
Stay with me the one who was soholy, wrapped himself in human
flesh, came to us so that theunholy could be touched, could
touch and be changed by the holy.
When you look at the tears ofJesus, when you look at where he
wept, there were other, therewas, there was the word weeping,
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there was the word lamentation.
But this weeping, this loud,uncontained expression of a
heart that was broken, we findhim at the tomb of Lazarus.
It wasn't just the doubt thatcaused this type of cry, but it
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was also what death had done.
He's coming to control, he'scoming to dominate.
He's coming to dominate, he'scoming to win over death, hell
and the grave.
But he's at the tomb of Lazarusand it says he wept.
He wept with us.
He knew our pain.
He knew what it was when welost someone we loved dearly.
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He knew what it was when thingsjust fell apart.
He knew God.
Jesus came and wept with us,but he also this passage in a
moment we're going to finishwith this but in Luke 19, he
wept over Jerusalem.
He was weeping for us In theGarden of Gethsemane.
He would weep on behalf of us.
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Why?
Because he is now.
He's starting to become sin.
He who knew no sin became sinfor us so that we could have
this exchange and become therighteousness of God.
He's not a distant God watchingfrom afar.
No, he is still Emmanuel, godwho is with us.
He's a friend of the woundedheart.
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This phrase, though, this phrasethat he was heard because of
his reverent submission it'seulobia, it is a Greek word that
he's heard because of hisreverent awe and careful
devotion to the Father.
So, when Jesus is praying andhe's expressing it with loud
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cries and tears, he's heard bythe Father because he was
praying with such totalsurrender, not resisting God's
will in any way, but embracingit fully.
He said whatever the Father'stold me, that's what I'm going
to do Whatever he tells me tosay.
That's what I say.
I'm doing everything for thefame of your name, father.
Glorify your Son, that your soncan glorify you.
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It isn't out of panic ordespair, but it's out of holy
fear.
It's all-filled attitude.
Before his father, before a holyGod, he understood our grief.
He knows the weight of despair,the ache of unanswered
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questions.
He not only collects our tears,he's cried them himself.
He weeps for us as of today.
Today, palm Sunday, thebeginning of Passion Week.
He drew near into the city, hewept over it.
He approaches Jerusalem.
Are y'all with me?
Are y'all getting anything outof this today?
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Come on, I'm almost done.
He sees the city, blind to itssalvation.
He sees the coming destruction,the pain of rejection, and his
heart breaks.
He's not weeping for himself,he's weeping for us.
He's weeping for them, theirlost opportunity, for those who
are missing the peace.
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Would that you would have justknown the things that make peace
In the Greek.
It's where we actually get theword, the name Irene.
It means not just the absenceof conflict, but a wholeness of
completion.
It means harmony.
It is equal to the Hebrew wordshalom the things that belong to
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peace, the things that are ledtoward peace, the conditions
required for peace.
It is the way of peace whichtakes you to the way of
wholeness.
He's lamenting, he's crying.
If you'd only known the way oftrue peace, the conditions that
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bring harmony, restoration andsalvation.
But even as Jesus wept, he knewthe ultimate hope.
He wasn't weeping hopelessly.
He was weeping because hope hadcome.
Hope was here.
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It's why we have Palm Sunday.
Hope has arrived.
His tears were filled with hopethat some would yet see and
respond.
He would be so full of hopethat on the cross he would make
his first cry Father, forgivethem.
They don't have a clue whatthey're doing.
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His heart breaks for every soulthat turns away from him.
He has visited us.
He came for us.
I said it earlier, I didn'tfind him.
He found me, if you guys wouldcome the next day.
He's cleansing the temple.
He's actually dealing with thereligious spirit.
There's a lot of woes going on.
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I wish I had time to go throughevery woe and what he was he
was.
He was addressing everydistraction from what the temple
was all about.
It was to be a place of prayer.
It was to be a place ofcommunion.
It was to be a place whereencounter it was to be, a place
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where they found him, because hewas there and he runs, he
starts.
It's the second cleansing of thetemple.
One was at the beginning of hisministry and the other is at
the close of what he's about toaccomplish and he makes a
statement.
It's called the lament of Jesus.
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Lament is actually the samething as weeping.
It is to bewail.
It is to wail loudly with grief, to mourn publicly.
I got to see some of the chosenKind of the new that's in the
movies.
I've not gotten to see it yet,but I've seen some of the
trailer of that.
And I remember when Jesus is atthis point and he's rebuking
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them for the hypocrisy that theyclaim one thing and they live
another and what they havedislodged the ability for the
people to see a trail to God.
And the one, pharisee, isscreaming don't say that again.
He tries to counter Jesus'rebuke and tells him to be quiet
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Don't say another word.
And I love the phrase theybrought into this man.
They took a little liberty.
He said oh, I'm just gettingstarted, because if there's one
thing that the anger of God isturned toward, more than a
prostitute, more than what welabel such the grades of sin.
It is the hypocrisy of thosewho claim to know him, yet their
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lifestyle leads completelyastray the very thing that they
said of who he is and the verything that religion because
religion says you got to do this, do that, but the cross says
it's already done, it's alreadydone.
Oh, jerusalem, jerusalem, thecity that kills the prophets and
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stones those who are sent to it.
How often I've longed to gatheryou, like children together, as
a hen gathers her brood underher wings.
And you were not willing.
See, your houses have left youdesolate, they're empty.
There's no satisfaction,there's no fulfillment, for I
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tell you, you will not see meagain until you say Baruch habem
Hashem, adonai, blessed is hewho comes.
In the Hebrew form, itformulates a deep emotional
emphasis.
It is this wailing loudly withgrief.
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It's a cry of sorrow andlonging.
Like a parent mourning for alost child.
He's yearning to gather andprotect them, like a hen would
her chicks but listen?
But they would not let him.
He said I long, come unto meall you that labor and heavy
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laden, I'll give you rest.
How often is the response no,too busy, I've got too many more
classes to do.
God, they would not let him.
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It's a cry of sorrow andlonging.
It's why Jesus is called andreferred to as the man of
sorrows In Isaiah 53, 3,.
He was despised and rejected.
He was a man of sorrows.
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He was acquainted with grief.
He was a man who understoodpain and anguish and grief.
He was acquainted, he wasintimately familiar, not a
distant observer.
I go back to the place.
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God has visited us.
Isaiah 53, 4 says Surely, he hasborne our griefs, he has
carried our sorrows.
Yet we esteemed him stricken,smitten by God and afflicted.
He bore our griefs.
He suffered physically.
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He understood intense pain.
If you're here today and youman, your body has been wracked
with pain, you, your body has,you feel like nobody understands
, no one knows.
The medication can't reallynumb it.
He said I am acquainted withyour pain.
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I'm almost finished Emotionally.
He was rejected.
He was betrayed.
He was the king riding on abeast of burden to establish
peace.
And he says I know what it isto be rejected.
I know what it is to be walkedaway from.
I know what it is to beslandered and to be lied about.
I know spiritually he wouldcarry the weight of the entire
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world.
Second Corinthians, paul, wouldsay that the one who knew no
sin became that.
That's hard to comprehend.
That God would become the mostvile of sin that we could ever
imagine in our minds Because,see, to take it on, he had to
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become that.
Why did he do that?
Because he's a high priest whounderstands our weakness, to
identify with us, to redeem usand to heal us.
That through his kindness, hiskindness that leads us.
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Watch, here's the trail oftears.
His kindness leads us torepentance.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
His kindness, his kindness, jesus.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
His kindness that brings godly sorrow, sorrow that
is according to God's will.
It's the kind of sorrow that'sinspired by God.
It's the sorrow we feel when wesee our sin the way God sees it
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.
Listen, I'm closing.
I've closed four times.
I have three more to go, soplease don't turn off right now.
I'm the founding pastor.
I get to do that because I'llbe somewhere else next time.
No, I know a spiritual son andhe closes many, many times.
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It says that godly sorrowproduces repentance.
It's what leads us to salvationand it's not to be regretted.
But the sorrow of the worldproduces death.
See, what godly sorrow sees issin as an offense against God, a
loving God.
It's like a child A child notjust sad because it got caught,
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but brokenhearted because thechild hurt their parent.
See, sometimes we just we cometo God because we don't want the
consequences and we forgetsomething.
We forget what it did to him,we forget the backdrop.
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Listen, growing up as a kid Ididn't want the consequences.
They may be 84 and 83 right now, but I still feel the
consequences at age 60.
But the older I got, I became aparent.
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I'll never forget one day,sitting in a car out on
University Drive.
I had Alex with me in the car.
Alex could tell you his story.
Alex had been lying, had beenliving a lie.
I can only say that becauseI've heard his story.
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He tells it publicly, but hehad been living a lie.
He knew consequences of lying.
I used to tell my kids listen,I don't care what you, I don't
care, just don't lie to me.
I can probably handle anything,just don't lie to me.
And he was living a lie, to behonest with you.
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I got on a plane because he waseven traveling with a ministry
drumming all around the country,was even traveling with a
ministry drumming all around thecountry.
And when somebody walked in myoffice and exposed this lie, and
I'm like what?
And I wept like a child becauseit wasn't, it wasn't about
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consequences, it just ripped myheart out.
I'm like it was more thantrying to want to go discipline
him.
How do you discipline someonethat age?
How do you?
You're a man now.
What do I do?
I can't discipline, I can'tground you.
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You don't even live at home.
I can't pull my belt off, whichI wanted to.
I used to.
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I can't do that anymore.
I looked at Lisa and I said I'mgoing to go get him.
I jumped on an airplane and Iflew to Boston.
They were rehearsing for aservice.
I stood around back and hedidn't know I was coming In the
rehearsal.
He turns around and his dad isstanding there.
He said what are you doing here?
I said I know this is your lastservice.
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I just wanted to come and sitin the service with you.
He thought it was cool andafter the service I said hey, I
got a hotel room.
Grab your gear.
I said come on up, come andhang with me.
We're going to fly hometomorrow.
I bought you a ticket.
You don't have to ride in thevan, you can come and hang with
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me.
We get into the room.
We had eaten a nice dinner.
We came back the next morning.
I said hey, son, go take ashower.
We're going to go roam aroundBoston and then we'll fly home
tomorrow.
He goes and gets a shower andI'm sitting at the little table.
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He walks out and I said hey,get your clothes on, man, let's
get ready to go.
When he finally gets ready, Isaid come here now, sit down
with me.
I didn't come here to roamBoston with you.
I came to get you Because Iknow the lie you've been living
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in and I didn't mean to.
I didn't.
But it broke my heart andbefore I could stop myself
because I didn't want tomanipulate this moment, I didn't
want to do something that butbefore I could stop myself it
was an ugly cry.
It was just an emotion that hadjust released from me like a
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river.
I couldn't even see his facebecause the tears were running
so down my face.
I had no idea what his response.
I didn't know if he's going toget up and go walk away.
I didn't know if he's going totell me forget this, dad.
I didn't know, becausesometimes when you're caught,
you'll either fright flight, youwill do something to try to get
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out of the consequences.
This had nothing to do withconsequences.
It had everything to do withthe broken father's heart.
It had everything to do with abroken father's heart Because I
knew what that could cost him.
I had never felt I had beforebut, I, had never really.
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There was something thathappened that day, not only in
me, but I watched my son turnand I watched him fall on the
floor, and it wasn't because ofwhat he had done.
It was how he had broken hisfather's heart.
I believe God is going to senda move of his presence to our
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nation.
We are in a window.
We better not spoil or soilthis.
But one thing he will restoreand that is a broken and
contrite spirit.
He never despises contritespirit.
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He never despises.
It is the tears of Jesus thatbroke his heart for what sin had
done.
And until we see the sin that ison the backdrop of his holiness
, it's deeper than a hell of hisholiness.
It's deeper than a hell, it'sstronger, it's more than just a
consequence of eternal damnation.
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There comes a moment when youreyes are open and you look and
you realize how he has loved me,how he cares For God, so loved
the world.
He gave his only begotten sonmy prayer for this resurrection
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week, on this day when a paradewas shut down, a parade of
shouts for a weeping Savior.
He wants you to know.
He knows right where you are.
He cares for you.
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He wants you to know.
He knows right where you are.
He cares for you.
That's why you can throw yourcare on him.
He cares for you.
Father, thank you for your wordtoday.
That's why you told us torepent, be converted, so that
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our sins are blotted out.
That's when times of refreshingcome.
The day will come where youwill wipe away every tear from
our eyes.
As an old hymn, an old gospelsong, used to say tears would
never stain the streets of thatcity.
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You were able to save to theuttermost because who draw near
to God through Jesus, since youalways live to make intercession
for us, thank you God.
Since you always live to makeintercession for us, thank you
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God.
Thank you, I pray.
Today there would be arevelation the eyes of
understanding, to be open.
Look what God has done for me.
He established peace with Godand man, man and God, even man
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to man.
You are the Prince of Peace.
You are the Prince of Peace.
You're the one who forevermakes intercession for us.
No one looking around just fora moment would say you know what
, rusty?
All I can say is that's me.
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I'm not gonna try to definewhat that means, but you would
say you have no idea where I'mat, what I've walked through.
You have no idea what it tookto even get up and get here
today.
If this was only for me today,if it was just for one other, I
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believe he wants to remind us heweeps, wants to remind us he
weeps, the tears are notunnoticed.
He has bottled, he hasdocumented, but he is also
redeemed.
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And if you're here today andsay that's me, lift your hand
right now, all over this place.
I want to pray for you.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,yes, someone else lift your hand
.
I just want to pray for you.
Yes, yes, yes yes, yes, yes inthe balcony.
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Yes, yes, anyone else, that's me, rusty.
Pray for me in the balcony.
Yes, yes, anyone else, that'sme, rusty.
Pray for me, yes, yes, here'swhat I want to do.
I want Pastor Brian just tobegin to sing.
When he begins to sing, I justwant you.
I'm going to pray for you rightnow.
You don't have to leave here.
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The way you came.
You see, the days of inspectionof the lamb, hear me, it was to
see the purity that he was alamb without spot, without
wrinkle, because only that lambcould be chosen to be placed on
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the doorpost.
It was the remembrance of beingdelivered from Egypt.
There were great wailing wouldbe heard for those who did not
apply the blood.
He would be this observationmoment, inspection why?
Because he is the lamb whotakes away the sin of the world.
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These are days it's called HolyWeek for a reason because we are
about to walk in the veryfootsteps, watching Jesus take
the trail of tears all the wayto the cross to be able to
finally declare to Telestai itis finished.
And three days later, rise.
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And because I live, you shalllive also.
Maybe that's the reason fortoday, but there were hands that
went up all over this place,father, I pray for these today.
I pray for all of us that as westep into this holy week, god,
let us be cautious how we walk.
Let us, lord, be intentional.
Let us remember redemption isfree, but it was never cheap,
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and you wept for me, you lovedme with an everlasting love and
Lord.
It makes the resurrection somuch more amazing Because you
are the resurrection and thelife, and if I just believe in
you, though I were dead yet I'mliving.
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Bless them today as PastorBrian begins to sing and we
stand.
If you lifted your hand, comeand find an altar right here, if
you would.
The end of the story of my sonAt probably 26 years of age.
He flew back to California, hesubmitted himself into a
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discipleship plan and program ofYWAM and I watched the
prophetic anointing come on, myson.
You know why Truth set you free.
Truth set you free, and he'swatching today and I just want
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to tell you, alex, as all of mychildren, I'm so proud of you.
But that moment I shared today,I am so proud of you son walk
intentionally.
Truth frees you.
Walk intentionally.
Truth frees you.
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Doesn't matter what kind ofhome you grow up in.
What matters is the life ofsurrender.
It's more than just flattery,it's obedience For your eyes
only.
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Thank you for loving me.
Could you lift your hands onemore time?
I'm going to bless you as wewalk out this holy week.
I pray it brings joy.
If you're weeping, guess whatJoy comes in the morning.
There's a joy unspeakable andfull of glory.
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That's what resurrection brings.
Father, thank you for today,thank you for every life, thank
you for this moment, thank youfor this house.
I thank you for what you'redoing and I thank you for a week
.
I thank you for what you'redoing and I thank you for a week
.
Lord, we can't wait, of all thethings, from Friday night there
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at the Orient.
God, thank you for a night ofworship, thank you for a
gathering of families andwatching our children have fun.
And, lord, I thank you forResurrection Sunday.
I pray for souls.
I pray for those that haven'teven considered walking into the
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doors of a church.
Lord, let them come on Sunday,because someone went and got
them and invited them and saidhey, we're going to go to lunch
afterwards, and I pray theywould encounter a holy God, one
who wept for us so that he couldredeem us.
Call us by name and I say overyou today, church, the Lord
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bless you and keep you.
May the Lord make his face toshine on you and to be gracious
to you.
May the Lord lift up hiscountenance on you, give you
peace, write his name on you andsay you belong to me.
I bless you today.
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