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Happy Lord's Day to
you.
Happy Palm Sunday to you.
Welcome to Christian WarriorMission, a home, church, farm
and ministry that forgesChristian Warriors for today's
challenges.
Hope you guys had a great week.
I hope you guys are lookingforward to Easter.
I know I am.
I'm not going to have anyannouncements this week, so
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we're going to dive right inpray and get started, all right,
dear Heavenly Father.
Lord, we thank you.
We thank you for this day.
We thank you for this message.
Lord, bless this message.
Making your words and not mine,help me deliver what you would
have me say and not what I wouldsay.
Lord, lord, we ask that youmultiply this message, if it
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pleases you, and make people whohear it, who need to hear it,
and use it for your glory andyour glory only.
Lord.
Lord, we thank you for all ourcountless blessings, known and
unknown the trillions of cellsthat had to work perfectly just
for us to wake up this morning.
Lord, we thank you for thesunrise, the sunset.
We thank you for what we hadtoday.
We had a turkey dinner today.
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So we thank you for good foodand the good taste of good food
and drink.
Lord, we thank you for thetouch of loved ones.
A warm fire on a cold day, coolbreeze on a hot day.
Lord, we thank you for thesound of children's laughter and
the sound of rain in themorning.
Lord, we thank you for thesmell of flowers in the ocean.
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Lord.
So again, lord, we thank you.
We ask that this time weglorify you and only you, serve
you and only you, and that itwould please you.
So, lord, help us to serve youwith every beat of our hearts
and proclaim you with every beatof our lungs.
In Jesus' name we pray Amen.
Alright, this is about PalmSunday and you can open your
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Bibles to Zechariah 9.
9 is where we're going to pickup when it comes time to read.
Okay, a promise, king foretold.
Old Testament hope from theprophets of old.
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Long before Jesus was born, goddeclared through his prophets
that a king, the king, wouldcome to rescue his people and
rule the nations.
These weren't vague hopes.
These were specific,time-anchored promises given to
strengthen the faith of Israeland to point God's warriors
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forward in hope of Israel and topoint God's warriors forward in
hope.
So in Zechariah, 500 yearsbefore Christ was born, listen
to this Rejoice greatly, odaughter of Zion, make a loud
shout, o daughter of Jerusalem,behold, your king is coming to
you.
He is righteous and endowedwith salvation.
He is righteous and endowedwith salvation, lowly and
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mounted on a donkey, even on acolt, the foal of a pack animal,
and his dominion will be fromsea to sea and from the river to
the ends of the earth.
Zechariah 9 and 10, written in520 BC.
This was half a millenniumbefore the cross.
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Zechariah, after the exile,prophesied that a humble,
righteous king would comebringing not only salvation but
dominion.
And as post-millennials, we'regoing to talk a lot about this.
You're going to hear a lotabout that eschatology
throughout this sermon.
Not a tribal ruler, not aregional strongman, a global
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king with a reign stretching tothe ends of the earth.
In Psalm 118, a thousand yearsbefore Christ, this is what you
heard.
This is what God said O Yahwehsave, I beseech you.
O Yahweh, I beseech you.
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Do not send prosperity.
Blessed is the one who comes inthe name of Yahweh.
We have blessed you from thehouse of Yahweh.
Psalm 118 25 writtenapproximately 1000 BC.
The phrase Yahweh save is theorigin of the crowd's Hosanna.
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On Palm Sunday, for a thousandyears, Israel sang this psalm as
a cry of deliverance.
And on the first Palm Sunday,the cry took on flesh and
fulfillment.
So, as Christian warriors, whatare our insights on this?
These are not myths.
These are divine battle plansrevealed across the centuries.
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They remind us that God nevershows up late centuries.
They remind us that God nevershows up late.
He moves with perfect timing,positioning his forces and
fulfilling his promises, like amaster general orchestrating
history.
To quote Charles Spurgeon, thetriumphal entry of Christ into
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Jerusalem was the prelude to histriumph over.
So how do we apply this to ourdaily lives?
Train your discernment.
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Just like ancient Israelmisread the king's mission, they
wanted a general to throw outRome and to bring along military
might, but Christ came for somuch more than that.
Modern believers often want theMessiah who fits their agenda
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right.
This is why we have so manydenominations and why you see
people who have a religion ofone.
I know many people who have areligion of one.
They pick and choose what partsof the Bible they want to
believe and that part's notimportant and this part is
important, because I like thissin and I don't like that one.
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Right, you must train yourspiritual reflexes to align with
the scriptures, not culturalcomfort.
Don't just cheer, commit.
The crowd shouted Hosanna, butdays later many turn silent or
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hostile.
Don't be a cheerleaderChristian.
Be a covenant warrior.
Worship him daily, not just onSunday.
Lead at home, fathers andmothers.
Build homes that anticipate theking's coming.
Read these prophecies with yourchildren.
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Talk about the precision ofGod's promises and the power of
his plans.
Let your home be a war room offaith and not a den of
distractions.
What's a den of distractions?
Tv, computer stuff of the worldand not of God.
We must all, myself includedand my wife included and
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everyone out there avoid more ofthe distractions and focus more
on God.
The king comes to Zion, thetriumphal entry.
You know the last season of theChosen.
Jesus had just mounted the coltand he was getting ready to go
in and I assume episode one willbe an amazing scene.
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And yes, I am a fan and sorryif you can't take Christian art
for Christian art.
It's not meant to be the Bible,it's meant to be Christian
entertainment.
You know, go back to watchingJohn Wick and you know all your
other godless shows and complainthat there's no Christian
content because nothing evermeets your standard right.
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So the king comes to Zion, thetriumphal entry.
Now we stand at the gates ofJerusalem.
The promised king, foretold forover a thousand years, rides
towards his destiny.
This is no ordinary parade.
This is a divine war strategy.
The commander of heaven enteringthe battlefield disguised in
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humility In Matthew 21, 7through 9, and they brought the
donkey and the colt and laidtheir garments on him.
And he sat on the garments andmost of the crowd spread their
garments in the road and otherswere cutting branches from trees
and spreading them on theground, and the crowd going
ahead of him and those whofollowed were crying out saying
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Hosanna to the son of David,blessed is he who comes in the
name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
Jesus chooses a donkey, not awar horse, not a tank.
He brings a beast of burden anda young one, an unproven one.
He fulfills Zachariah's500-year-old prophecy to the
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letter.
He is humble, yes, but make nomistake this is an act of war.
Christ is marching in the cityto claim it, not with siege
towers, but with divineauthority.
The king's meekness is notweakness.
Isaiah 42, 2-3, written 700years before Christ.
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He will not cry out or raisehis voice, nor make his voice
heard in the street, a crushedreed.
He will not break In.
A faintly burning wick, he willnot extinguish, he will bring
forth justice in truth.
Burning wick, he will notextinguish, he will bring forth
justice in truth.
And then, in Philippians 2, 8through 10, being found in
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appearance as a man, he humbledhimself by becoming obedient to
the point of death, even deathon the cross, which was the most
shameful, humiliating defeatyou could imagine at that time.
Therefore, god also highlyexalted him and bestowed on him
the name which is above everyname, so that the name of Jesus,
every knee will bow.
This is combat by obedience.
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This is the kingdom launched bysacrifice, not by a sword.
And yet his name will bringevery knee to the ground.
It's the complete opposite ofwhat man would do.
Man would make this a big fightscene and smiting and all these
other things.
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But no, god, who is the king ofeverything, comes down to claim
this city, to die for it.
It's completely alien to thehuman mind that he would do this
.
To quote Augustine the one whomthey feared as dead, he
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conquered as living.
The one whom they mocked ascrucified, he reigns as risen.
What does this mean to us?
Stop looking for earthly power,christian, stop trying to force
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victory through worldly tools.
Jesus didn't storm the citywith politics or popularity.
He won by faithfulness.
So must you All.
Right now.
I am one who votes biblicallyand I do all the things.
I use the tools that we havetoday because I think they are
important.
But how was I won over?
How was my wife won over?
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How was my mom won over?
We are all diehardconservatives now, but all of us
were pro-abortion at one point.
All of us were as far from Godas imaginable.
My wife was a liberal right,but God got a hold of us through
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the gospel and changed ourheart, changed our heart, and
our heart aligns politicallywith those on the right, which
is a more godly party than theleft, which is the godless party
of infancy, genital mutilationand complete mockery of God.
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Get on the donkey.
Humility is your war mount.
Learn it from the king in yourmarriage, in your workplace, in
your church.
Choose the donkey, not thechariot.
Obedience is how warriors fight.
Be humble, be humble.
Raise the war.
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Cry daily.
The crowd cried, cried, hosanna.
Let that be more than a onetime cheer.
Make praise your battle anthemat your breakfast table, in your
truck, on your knees at night.
Rally your family aroundworship, nearly without
exception.
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We do, we do.
We do praise music in themorning here, we do it
throughout the day, and any timeone of us becomes a grunt
monster or I'm in a gruntmonster, or I'm in a bad mood,
or my wife's in a bad mood we goinstantly to praise music and
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it'll fix it.
Nine times out of ten, Irecommend you do the same.
The entry signals judgment andthe birth of a new order.
Palm Sunday wasn't just acelebration.
It was a divine confrontation.
Jesus wasn't coming to simplybe honored.
He was coming to take over, toclean house, to declare judgment
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on the corrupt religious orderand to establish a new covenant
kingdom that would crush everyidol in its path.
In Malachi 3.1, written 430years before Jesus Behold, I am
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going to send my messenger andhe will clear a way before me,
and the Lord whom you areseeking will suddenly come to
his temple, and the messenger ofthe covenant in whom you
delight.
Behold, he is coming, saysYahweh of hosts.
Four centuries before, on PalmSunday, malachi warned of the
day when the Lord himself wouldenter the temple.
That day came.
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Jesus did not stroll intoJerusalem to waver the crowds,
he went straight to the templemouth, the spiritual heart of
the nation, and declared war onits corruption Matthew 21, 12,
and 13.
And Jesus entered the templeand drove out all those who were
selling and buying in thetemple, and he overturned the
table of the money changers andthe seats of those who were
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selling doves and he said tothem it is written my house
shall be called a house ofprayer, but you are making it a
robber's den.
Jesus didn't clean the templelike a janitor, he cleansed it
like a warrior.
This was not passivespirituality, this was righteous
, prophetic fire.
He quoted Isaiah 56.7 andJeremiah 7.11, declaring that
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what was meant to be holy groundhad become enemy territory.
And by doing this he announcedthe beginning of the end of the
old order.
The temple system of sacrifices, the Levitical priesthood All
of it was now obsolete.
He was declaring himself as thenew and living temple, the
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final high priest, the once forall sacrifice to come, and
Daniel 2.44, written 600 yearsbefore Christ, before the cross
and the days of those kings, theGod of heaven will cause a
kingdom to rise up which willnever be destroyed, and it will
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crush and put an end to allthese kingdoms, but it itself
will stand forever.
Thy triumphal entry wasn't justa fulfillment of Zechariah and
Malachi.
It was Daniel's vision mademanifest.
The stone cut without hands.
Jesus had entered the finalempire, rome, and that stone
would smash the kingdom of men.
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The internal kingdom of Christwas now on the move.
To quote RC Sproul, jesus' entryin Jerusalem was not merely a
triumphal march.
It was an act of divineconfrontation.
The king was coming to claimhis kingdom and cleanse his
house.
So what can we do with this asChristian warriors, start with
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your temple.
Christian warriors, start withyour temple.
The new covenant temple is nota building, it's you.
1 Corinthians 6, 19.
Jesus still comes to cleanse.
What table in your life does heneed to?
Or what tables in his life doeshe need to overturn?
What hidden idols have you made?
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Idols have made your life a denof robbers instead of a house
of prayer.
Cleanse your home baseChristian father, mother,
grandmother, grandfather,brother, sister.
Your home is your spiritualJerusalem.
Don't tolerate the moneychangers or worldliness, apathy
or compromise.
Clean house, lead your housewith truth and fire and lastly,
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in this part, advance yourkingdom without apology.
Christ wasn't seeker sensitive.
On Psalm Sunday he declaredjudgment and inaugurated
dominion.
You too must reject cowardly,passive Christianity.
You too must reject cowardly,passive Christianity.
Speak truth boldly, liverighteously.
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Don't wait for culture tochange.
Be the hammer that swings inhis hand.
That swings in his hand.
The king's reign and theexpansion of his kingdom.
Palm Sunday wasn't just theking's entry into Jerusalem.
It was the opening move of aglobal takeover.
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The meek Messiah who rode onthe donkey now reigns from
heaven, subduing all enemiesbeneath his feet.
This is not idle theology.
This is a battle plan for theages, the coronation of Christ
the King.
Matthew 28, 18 through 19.
And Jesus came up and spoke tothem, saying all authority has
been given to me in heaven andon earth.
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Go, therefore, and makedisciples of all nations.
This is not a future reign,this is a present rule.
Christ is not waiting to beking, he is already crowned.
Palm Sunday announced hiskingship.
The cross sealed it, theresurrection proved it and his
ascension enthroned him.
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Psalm 2, 7-9, written around1000 BC.
I will surely tell of thedecree of Yahweh.
Psalm 2, 7-9, written around1000 BC.
I will surely tell of thedecree of Yahweh.
He said to me you are my son.
Today I have begotten.
You Ask me, and I will surelygive the nations as your
inheritance and the ends of theearth as your possession, you
shall break them with a rod ofiron.
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This was not poetry, it wasprophecy.
A millennium before Christ,david foresaw a king whose
inheritance is the nations.
And our king is not politelyasking for them, he's claiming
them 1 Corinthians 15.25,.
For he must reign until he hasput all his enemies under his
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feet.
This is happening right now.
He is reigning, he is ruling,he is subduing rebels.
I was one of them, my mom wasone of them, my wife was one of
them.
You were probably one of themConverting sinners and
conquering through the gospel.
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To quote Abraham Kuyper, thereis not a square inch in the
whole domain of our humanexistence over which Christ, who
is sovereign over all, does notcry.
Mine People want to put onepart of their life away from
Christ.
Oh, my politics.
I love Christ, but I want to bea Democrat because that's faux
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compassion.
But I want to be a Democratbecause that's faux compassion
and I'm completely deceived.
And God doesn't want separationof churches to say he doesn't
want my politics.
God wants all of you.
Yes, your politics, yes.
Your entertainment, yes, yourmusic, yes, your sex life, yes,
your children From Jerusalem tothe end of the earth.
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Isaiah 9-7, written in 700 BCthere will be no end to the
increase of his governance,government or peace on the
throne of David and over hiskingdom.
His government isn't shrinking,it's expanding.
This is the heart of thepostmillennial vision the idea
that Christ's kingdom willprogressively fill the earth,
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not through politics or violence, but through the power of
Scripture and the advance of thegospel.
Habakkuk 2.14, written 600 BC.
For the earth will be filledwith knowledge and the glory of
Yahweh as the waters cover thesea.
This is not wishful thinking,this is divine certainty.
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The waters cover the seacompletely, so will God's glory
saturate the planet.
That mission began on PalmSunday and it continues in you.
In Revelations 11.15,.
The kingdom of the world hasbecome the kingdom of our Lord
and of his Christ, and he willreign forever and ever.
This is the direction ofhistory.
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The kingdoms of men will fail,the kingdom of Christ will stand
.
What do we do with thisknowledge?
You're not waiting for victory,you're advancing it.
Christian, stop acting like theworld is winning.
You know how many quarterChristians I hear, the pre-mill,
the dispensationalists.
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Oh, I hope things are gettingso bad, really, really.
Really, you don't know what badis.
Bad is most women died inchildbirth.
Most people were starving todeath.
Yes, there's sin, yes, there'sproblem, but a religion that
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started with 12 knuckleheads isnow billions of people strong.
Are we really losing?
It's pathetic.
It's pathetic.
It's pathetic.
It's a quitter mentality.
It's self-defeating prophecy.
So stop acting like the worldis winning.
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You're on the side of thereigning king.
Live like it, pray like it,work like it.
Raise up the next generation ofkingdom warriors.
Parents.
You're not raising kids tosurvive culture.
You're raising warriors tosubdue it and conquer it.
In Christ's name, build yourhomes like training camps for
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dominion.
Read the word, sing psalms,pray like generals, love with
power, prepare and train, takeground, just don't hold it
Wherever you are.
Advance the kingdom in yourworkplace, your farm, your
church, your platform.
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That's your battlefield.
Don't just maintain.
Multiply, conquer, disciple.
Hope is your strategy.
Pessimism is for the quitter,weak.
Sauce Christians out there.
Pessimism is not a fruit of thespirit.
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The gates of hell will notprevail.
That means you don't sit in thetrench.
You storm the walls with gospelfire, with confidence in
Christ's rule.
To quote John Calvin, ourwarfare will not be ended until
we are called to triumph, butChrist will never leave us
destitute in the battle.
So living under Christ'skingship, daily warfare for
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individuals and families.
Palm Sunday demands more thanpalms and praise.
It demands allegiance.
Jesus didn't ride intoJerusalem for applause.
He rode in to take his rightfulthrone In the city, in your
home and in your heart.
He is king now.
The question isn't if you'reserving.
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The question isn't if you'reserving a king.
The question is will you bow tothe rightful one or to the
counterfeit kings of comfortself and compromise?
Let me read that again Will youbow to the rightful king or
will you serve the counterfeitkings of comfort self and
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compromise?
This is where we move fromtheory to tactics.
It's not enough to admire theking.
You must submit to his reigndaily, as a soldier under
command, so an individual, dailyalliance, worship, obedience
and resolve.
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Psalm 110.3, written 1000 BC.
Your people will offerthemselves freely in the day of
your power, in the splendor ofholiness from the womb of the
dawn.
The dew of your youth is yours.
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If you belong to King Jesus,you offer yourself freely every
morning.
That means ready.
Worship isn't optional, it'syour daily war cry.
Start the day on your knees, noton your phone.
Start the day on your knees andnot on your phone.
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Resist the urge to go over.
Grab it and start scrolling.
Pray before you do that, onyour knees.
Sitting on your bed, preferablyon your knees.
Pray before you start.
Obedience isn't legalism, it'swarfare.
Refusing temptation is how youlock shields with Christ.
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Resolve is required.
This isn't peacetime.
You're not on a cruise ship.
You're on a kingdom assaultteam.
Harden your mind, guard youreyes, lead your soul like a
general leads an army Proverbs28.1.
The wicked flee when there isno one pursuing, but the
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righteous are bold as a lion.
Now let's look at family-leveldiscipleship.
Build your household like afortress Deuteronomy 6 and 7,
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written 1400 BC.
And these words which I amcommanding you today shall be on
your heart.
You shall teach them diligentlyto your sons.
That means one daily word Readscripture together.
Even five minutes a day buildsstrong walls.
Family prayer Let your kidshear you call on the king for
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help often and boldly.
Disciple of love, rule yourhome as one under the rule of
Christ.
Mercy and truth must be present.
Rituals of remembrance, markPsalm, sunday, easter and the
Lord's Day, like holy battlefeasts.
These are not hallmark holidays.
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They are kingdom celebrations,make your Sundays special, make
these holidays surpass yourChristmas, even though Christmas
is a great one and is important.
Proverbs 24, 3 and 4.
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By wisdom a house is built andby discernment is established,
and by the knowledge of, roomsare filled with all precious and
pleasant riches.
A call of total loyalty andvisible action.
Romans 12.1.
Therefore, I exhort you,brothers, by the mercies of God,
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to present your bodies as asacrifice, living, holy,
pleasing to God, which is yourspiritual service of worship.
Your body belongs to the king,so what you ain't, drink where,
say and do all of it must servehim.
What isn't that hit hard?
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Your body belongs to the king,so what you eat, drink, say and
do All of it must serve him.
Your reputation belongs to theking.
That means stand for truth,even when it costs you.
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Your resources belong to theking.
Use your time, your form, yourtools, your weapons, your words
to build his kingdom.
If you are not building hiskingdom, you are not Christian.
You're not because you're notdoing what your job is.
You're a Christian in name only.
To quote Dietrich Bonhoeffer,when Christ calls a man, he bids
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him to come and die, but alsohe raises that man to rule.
That's the paradox of PalmSunday.
The king who came to die is theking who now reigns, and we die
to self so we can reign withhim.
Final charge to the Christianwarrior Revelation 7, 9 through
10.
After these things, I look andbehold a great multitude
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standing before the throne andbefore the Lamb, clothed in
white robes and palm brancheswere in their hands, and they
cry out with a loud voice,saying Salvation belongs to our
God, who sits on the throne, andto the Lamb.
One day your palm branch willwave in the crowd of the
redeemed, but until then yoursword must stay sharp.
Palm Sunday is your reminder.
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You are enlisted in the Lord'sarmy, you are equipped by the
Lord and you are sent.
The king has come.
The kingdom is advancing.
Let your home, your heart andyour hands prove your allegiance
.
So now let's get ready for theLord's table.
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Lord's Supper, palm Sunday, endsin Holy Week.
The cheers of Hosanna quicklyturn to cries of crucify, and
that's no accident.
The kingdom didn't come to beadored, he came to be sacrificed
.
But this was not defeat, thiswas strategy.
The king shed his blood toconquer sin, death and hell, and
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now he invites his warriors tocome eat with him at his victory
table.
In Luke 22, 19 through 20, itsays and when he had taken some
bread and given thanks, he brokeit and gave it to them, saying
this is my body, for which isgiven just remembrance.
It is recommitment.
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This is where warriors reportfor duty at the Lord's table.
In 1 Corinthians 11-26,.
For as often as you eat thisbread and drink the cup, you
proclaim the Lord's death untilhe comes.
This is battle fuel.
You are proclaiming that theking has died in your place and
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that the king has risen and nowreigns.
The king will return and untilthen you will not retreat.
Prepare your heart before theking.
Before we approach the table,scripture commands us to examine
ourselves 1 Corinthians 11.28.
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But a man must test himself andin doing so he is to eat the
bread and drink of the cup.
So right now, take a moment,close your eyes, lay down your
sin, lay down your self-will,lay down your distractions.
Come with clean hands, openheart and holy fear.
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I'll do that now.
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King Jesus, we thank you thatyou rode into the city to die
for us.
We thank you that you conqueredour sins by being broken in our
place.
Feed us now at your table,strengthen us to live and die
and reign with you.
Amen.
So now, with the elements, thisis my body which is given for
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you.
Do this in remembrance of me.
Go ahead and eat.
This cup is the new covenant inmy blood, poured out for many,
for the forgiveness of sins.
Take and drink.
You've just dined with the king.
Now rise like warriors who havebeen fed and filled.
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You are no longer your own.
You belong to the crown.
Psalm 28, 24, 8 through 10.
Who is the king of glory?
Yahweh strong and mighty.
Yahweh mighty in battle, yahwehof hosts.
He is the king of glory.
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Romans 16, 20.
And the God of peace will sooncrush Satan under your feet.
The grace of our Lord Jesus bewith you.
So go ahead and rise.
Warriors of Christ, you haveseen the King riding in victory.
You have eaten at his table oftriumph.
Now go out and fight the goodfight of the faith.
Hold your shield high, wieldyour sword of the Spirit with
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skill, build homes that reflecthis glory, raise children that
march for his name.
Live boldly, preach fearlessly,advance the kingdom, because
the king is already on thethrone, and may the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the love ofGod, the Father and the power of
the Holy Spirit be with you all, now and forever.
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Amen.
God bless you.