The Melancholy Entry
First B Jackson
2023-10-22

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Good morning, everybody. How are doing this morning? I've got a good word from, Psalm sixteen eleven. And would you stand with me, so we can we can worship the Lord together? Psalm sixteen eleven is, you have made known to me the path of life, and you will fill me with joy in your presence with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Let's start by singing, oh, love that will not let me go.

Amen. Y'all can have a seat of a few announcements. Let's see what they are together. There's a Bible study study board in the lobby back there on that side. If you wanna look and see if you can find a place that you fit in, that's great.

If you wanna call and let us kinda direct you, that's fine too in in the church office. But there's is probably already a Bible study for you. And if there's not, you might be one to lead a Bible study. Who knows? Hard to say.

Youth group. So, there is no youth group tonight. It's not happening tonight but I will say that the norm starting next week will be for first b, high school and middle school both on Sunday evenings, Sunday afternoon three to five, but not tonight, not tonight. But next week, will be high school, middle school together, first B folks. And then we'll be doing the associated group with other youth groups in town at Tribe on Thursday, 06:30 to eight.

And that is happening this week. High school, Thursdays, 06:30 to eight at the Tribe Ministry Center. You want to say anything about Awana?

Yeah. It's just it's a regular club night tomorrow, 05:45 to 07:30.

Alright. Regular club night means fun stuff. Starting out in this room, 05:45. Sewing Peace Conference. Last week, I looked up last week and I saw walking down the aisle Ken Sandy.

Y'all know who Ken Sandy is? He's the guy who wrote The Peacemaker, Relational Wisdom three sixty as his ministry. Unbelievable ministry. He goes and advises all the time. So, sowing peace, there's church, the we are all going together.

Carl and I are planning on coming back to do church Sunday morning, that Sunday morning, but the rest of us are going. If you would like to go, if you want more information about it, ask us and we will tell you all that we know about it. So November second through the fifth, Billings, Montana, Sew In Peace Conference. It ought to be really good. There are boxes out there available in the entry hall over there on a green table.

The green and red boxes are for Samaritan's Purses Ministry, Operation Christmas Child. That is November 19 is the due date for those. If you want to get them now, pack them, get them ready to have them all back here. We will actually do a packing party right before the due date. But if you want to, please grab a box and they'll be do We that.

Discuss the philosophical implications of this among yourself.

Lord, as we as we sing that song, I I I think of, the Psalm that says there's there's no place that we can be where you are not. So, lord, you are here, but God, would there be an awareness in us that truly that you are here, and that there would be an openness, a receptiveness from us on our part that we would invite you in, really. You wanna speak to us. You wanna tell us of your love, your grace, of your mercy, of your forgiveness. God, that we would be open to receive it.

Amen.

Faithful yesterday now and always your mercy is mighty age after age all generations bow down in praise the Lord is faithful yesterday you overcame awesome and great is your name. You overcame.

You can have a a seat here for a moment. This is the worship through giving part of the service. I would like the ushers to come on forward. We're gonna we're gonna sing a song called For Your Glory from Colossians three seventeen. A good reminder to us that whatever we do, word or deed, word or deed to do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus and giving thanks to God the father through him.

Before we sing, Ray,

would you pray? Sure. God, thank you for this morning. Thank you for the the place to gather and worship. The place to gather in your name, lord, to seek direction for our individual lives, for our collective life together.

Lord, would you make us an effective part of the body of Christ here in this community and to the very uttermost parts. Lord, we pray that you would show us the way and give us the power to walk it out. We ask that you would bless all that is placed in these plates, Lord, that you would bless it to do your kingdom's work, that as unconventional or unorthodox as it may sound to us, we would find what that is, Lord, and that we would be making heavenly investments. In Jesus name, we ask, Lord, that your gospel would go forth, not in spite of us, Lord, but because of humble obedience before you. In Jesus name, we ask to be a part of what you're doing in the world.

Amen.

We say lord you can use me lord

and it's time for children's church downstairs Amen. Love that sound. I forgot an announcement because it wasn't on the slides. A load showed up from Smith's this morning down in the fellowship hall. So, if you would like some produce, it is down in the fellowship hall and there is a lot of it.

I would be delighted if it were all gone before the second service. There's a lot of it. If you want to fix up a mess of greens, there is plenty down there, strawberries and all kinds of other stuff. So good stuff if you would get it. That comes up on the screen.

This is normally known as the triumphal entry. Okay? And usually, when we go through this passage, it's Palm Sunday. And there are kids waving branches and singing hosannas. And it doesn't feel like the time to call it the melancholy entry on Palm Sunday, but it does right now to me.

When Jesus looked down over when we look down, it is something that would might cause one to weep. I'm gonna just go through the passages, all of the synoptics account of the triumphal entry this morning, I'm going try not to re preach everything that I've ever preached on this passage. Okay? It's there, and I'll mention it, by the way, but I want to see it try to see it with fresh eyes. Okay?

Is that okay? The melancholy entry. This is what we're covering today. We'll go back and forth like we've been doing in this harmony of the gospels. Mark's is the shortest.

Usually, Luke's is the longest, but in this case, Matthew's is a little longer. So, we're just going to go through it. Here it is. When they had approached Jerusalem and they had come to Bethphes. Now, the last time that we talked about where they were, Jesus was in Jericho.

He had been in Paria and was coming back, but he was in Jericho and then they walk up and I've mentioned that every week for the last three or four weeks that the distance is about from first b to the top of the pass. The elevation change is the same as from first b to the top of the pass. When they had approached Jerusalem, they had that walk behind them. They come to Bethphage and at the Mount Of Olives, Jesus then sent two of his disciples saying, go into this village opposite you. Actually, Mark says, and as they approached Jerusalem at Bethphage, just a couple miles away, near the Mount Of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to him, go into the village opposite you.

And Luke says, when he approached Bethphage and Bethany near the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples saying, go into the village ahead of you. Now, here's a map that's really hard to see. That's the whole area. We got the Sea Of Galilee up top, the Dead Sea at the bottom, Jordan River. If you go back to Luke nine fifty one, he's in Capernaum when he says that, and it says he set his face for Jerusalem.

This was gonna be that time where he's walking towards the cross. And everything we read, especially after having read it a lot of times, we see it with that kind of significance. So Sea Of Galilee, and it says, and they were gonna pass through Samaria, but he sent disciples on ahead of him and because they were headed towards Jerusalem. There's a little bit of us and them mentality right there. The Samaritan said, nope.

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that were in Perea. And then crossing into Jericho, the blind beggars, Bartimaeus and the other guy unnamed. And then Zacchaeus, all of that's happening. And then the Jericho rode up, the Wadi Kilt towards Jerusalem. This says they meet up at Bethpage and Bethany right there.

So Bethpage and the village opposite is Bethany. And that's where we are for you map people. And immediately, go to the village opposite you, Jesus says, in Matthew. And immediately, right there, when you walk into town, you'll find a donkey tied up right there with a colt with it, untie them and bring them to me. And if anyone says anything about it, you just say the Lord needs them.

And he will send them on immediately. Mark says, immediately, as you enter, you'll find a colt tied there, which on which no one has ever sat. That's nice. That's nice unless you know anything about donkeys. You ever break a mule or a donkey or a horse?

The first ride is not usually a pleasant one. You'll find a colt that no one has ever ridden upon, unbroken colt. Untie it and bring it here. And if anyone says anything to you, why are you doing this? And say, the Lord has need of it.

And immediately, he will send it back here. When he's finished with it, you'll get it back. He's not taking it forever. Luke says, there, right as you enter, you'll find a colt tied up and do that. To able to And But then I saw how stove up he was the next day.

That means he was really sore. I thought maybe it's not as much fun as it looks like. Untie it and bring it here. And if anyone asks you why you're untying it, just say the Lord has a need of it. So, Angaria.

Angaria is a Roman custom whereby a Roman could ask of any of their subjects, any other people. A Roman citizen could actually require it. A landowner, a lord, could require of someone the use of something. It's like commandeering a vehicle. A soldier certainly could.

Maybe. That's Angaria. Jesus might have known. Sounds like he knew where it was going to be. Oh, he's Jesus.

Well, he could have made arrangements prior too. We don't know exactly what it was. It might have been, you'll get it back. Don't worry about it. Could have been like that.

Now this took place, Matthew says, so that what was spoken through the prophet will be fulfilled. And then he gives the passage, say to the daughter of Zion, behold, your king is coming to you humble and mount it on a donkey, even on a coal, the foal, a colt, the foal of a donkey. Isaiah sixty two eleven is where it says, say to the daughter of Zion, calls back the whole verse here, behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the very ends of the earth. Say to the daughter of Zion, behold, your salvation is coming. Behold, his reward is with him and his compensation is before him.

Then Zechariah nine nine says this, rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion. Shout out in triumph, daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, your king is coming to you. He is righteous and he's endowed with salvation. He is humble and mounted on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

And so the disciples went and they did just as Jesus had instructed them. I had a professor for a while in seminary. My my first two years of Greek was from doctor Harvey, and he taught a class called missions from the gospel of Matthew, and it was a great course. And he said, the reason it was great is because of this. When Jesus said to do something, it says the deceit disciples went usually it says, and immediately.

They did just as Jesus had instructed them. The great commission is in Matthew, right? Lots of lots of missions in Matthew. The disciples went. They did just as Jesus had instructed them.

Mark says, they went away and they found the colt just like Jesus said, tied at the door outside in the street. They untied it and some of the bystanders there were saying to him, what are you doing untying that colt? Just like Jesus had said because he already knows what's in the heart of man. And they told him that g what Jesus had just said and they gave him permission. Okay.

Go ahead. So those who were sent left and found it just as he had told them. And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, why are you untying the colt? So Luke, investigative as he is, says those weren't bystanders. Those were the owners.

They said, the Lord has need of it. And they brought the colt to Jesus, and they put their cloaks on it. So it's a couple of the disciples, and they are recognizing this unbroken colt. And they put a little pad on the back for the ride that they're expecting, I guess. No.

Probably to show honor to Jesus. They they bring the colt to Jesus. They put their cloaks on it, and he sat on top of it. And many other people spread their cloaks on the road. Now when we saw down in between the old Jericho, new Jericho, the healing of blind Bartimaeus and the other guy, and we see Zacchaeus, and we see the mighty throng that's around him, they're already excited about the journey.

They're already ready for Passover, which is they're going up for Passover. And so they're already excited. And the last thing we heard from Jesus was that weird story that I I gave you some context last week about Archelaus, Herod Archelaus. And he says, he told that parable because why? They thought the kingdom was gonna come immediately, and they were near Jerusalem.

Because if it's gonna come, that's where it's gonna come. Now it's been years. Herod the great died in four BC. Herod Archelaus was banished and died in six AD after just ten years of reigning. So after that, there was not a Jewish king, not even a semi Jewish king.

There were only Roman governors and the people hated it. The Jews hated it. They hated being ruled over because theirs was supposed to be a theocracy. It was supposed to be that God was in charge, but it's really hard to think God's in charge when there's somebody else that's lording over you. So they brought the colt to Jesus.

They put their cloaks on it. He sat on it. And many people spread their cloaks on the road. They're an excited group. And others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields.

And John tells us they were palm branches. John says palm branches. Mark says leafy branches. Matthew says they were cutting branches. They brought the donkey, colt, laid their cloaks on them.

He sat on the cloaks. Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road. So they are just getting laying out the red carpet ahead of him. As they descend from the Mount Of Olives towards the Kidron Valley and up into Jerusalem. Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road.

Others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road. Luke says, now as he was going, they were spreading their cloaks on the road. He doesn't mention the branches, doesn't have to. The branches I have gone ad infinitum about were a political symbol of the nation of Israel. And so if you look at coins of Herod Antipas, he's doing a little bit of, hey, I'm really with you here when he has palm fronds on the back of his coins, even though he's making graven images.

That's not cool, the Jews. But he it's a nationalistic symbol. As soon as he was approaching near the descent of the Mount Of Olives, so he's coming off of the hill. Here's a little map. So Bethany and Bethpage, the pink areas over here, Mount Of Olives, hilltop here.

And then looking down, this section of road here is the descent to the valley. And that big purple polygon is the Temple Mount. They're about right there according to the text. And this is from a model, by the way, in Israel. They didn't have photography back then.

But it's a great model. It's enormous. I cut out all the power lines and all of the paper cups and guardrails. But this is what it would have looked like approximately from that place looking down on the Temple Mount. Now the crowd's going ahead of him and those who followed.

So he has a a big, mighty throng in front and behind. He's traveling in the middle, sitting on this little colt. And it doesn't mention that it's bucking him off. Right? So that's a sign of he is the prince of peace.

Like an unridden donkey is not even trying to throw him. He controls the wind and the waves. He controls the weather. He controls and he is able to ride in on a donkey, not a big white war horse, not a strong and mighty armored steed. He is riding in on a humble little donkey's colt.

And this is prophecy. It it is not unheard of, actually. In the Old Testament, there are three different examples of kings riding in peacefully on a donkey. Now the crowd's going ahead of him and those who follow were shouting, hosanna, which means save us now. Save us now, son of David, messianic term.

Save us now, messiah. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. Save us now from on high. Mark says, and those who went in front and those who followed were all shouting together, Hosanna.

Hosanna. Shouting to God for the voice of triumph. No. That's the kid's song. Sorry.

Hosanna. Save us now. Blessed is he who comes in the name of Lord. Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David. Jesus just told this crowd, at least some of this crowd, he just told them this story because they were nearing Jerusalem and because they thought the kingdom was gonna come right now.

They want their way and they want it now. Does that sound like us? Do you want your way and you want it now? Yeah. It's human nature, I think.

Especially if you feel like you've been put upon and tried and over for a long time and they do feel that way. Hosanna. Blessed save us now. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David.

Hosanna in the highest. Save us now from on high. Luke says, and as soon as he was approaching near the descent of the Mount Of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen. Miracles. So the miracles.

Miracles are meant to authenticate the message. Right? And it's throughout the gospels. Miracles are meant to authenticate the message. And miracles are about his messiahship.

All of the people who have studied God's word and studied prophecy should know that when you see someone who's given sight to the blind, when you see someone that can cure leprosy, when you see someone who is helping the downtrodden and setting the captives free, you should be thinking, might this be Messiah? And then when he keeps proving it or and or, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen and they were shouting, blessed is the king. Blessed is the king. He's the one who's gonna save us now. Blessed is the king.

The one who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven and glory in the highest. It was a war torn place. There were brutal riots all the time and if somebody's gonna take over, it might as be might as well be us. We're with him and he's going to establish this kingdom right now.

Blessed is the king, the one who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven and glory in the highest. Now there's a chronological note on the travelogue here. I'm going skip something, and I'll come back to it. Alright?

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Matthew says, and when he had entered Jerusalem, all of the city was stirred saying, who is this? Now these are not the ones who traveled up the hill with him. This is now this is a mighty throne. Well, we know the Passover's coming. We know people are gonna be in town.

That's normal. When you know, you know, Memorial Day, what's coming. Right? You know what's coming. By June 15, you know what traffic's gonna do.

You know where the other restaurants are gonna be. We know this. When they saw it, they knew that something bigger than that was going on. Who is this? And the crowds were saying, this is Jesus.

The crowds were saying, this is Jesus. He's the prophet. He's from Nazareth in Galilee. We're with him. And those who are blind and those who limped came to him in the temple area.

Mark just says he went to the temple. Matthew says what he did while he was there. And those who are blind and those who limped came to him in the temple area and he healed them. So not only has he been doing it from Capernaum all the way down, crossing Samaria into Perea, all the way down into Jericho, between the Jerichos, up the hill, all of the way, he's been doing this, but now he's doing it in that. Do And And And

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He raises Lazarus from the dead. So there's a resurrection and so there are miraculous healings right there in the temple. It's kind of hard to deny what's going on. Right? It's happening and everybody who sees it is seeing it.

So all of that's important. Those who are blind and those who came to him in the temporary and he healed them. But when the chief priest and the scribes saw the wonderful things, no doubt about it, they were wonderful. When the chief priest and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he had done and the children who were shouting in the temple area, do you think they said, stop that. It's the temple area.

I think that's what they said. And they were shouting what? Hosanna to the Messiah, son of David. Hosanna to the chosen one. Hosanna, save us now, son of David.

Finally, finally, it's happening. And the children were joyfully singing about it. And when the chief priest and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he had done, and the children who were shouting in the temple saying, Hosanna to the son of David, they became, anybody? What's your guess? Ecstatic, joyful, grateful to God, indignant.

They were mad about it. They were upset that Jesus did this. The chief priests and the scribes, usually politically opposite wing from Pharisees. So if you're right and left, if you see it that way, Pharisees being right, these would be left wingers. They saw that and said, no.

We say what goes on around here and it's not that. So they became indignant. This is the third person plural aorist active indicative from sorry. They were indignant. They were incensed.

They were angry. They were very, very upset. The last time we saw this word, actually one Greek letter different means he was instead of they were. The last time we saw it, it was Jesus who was angry. And Jesus was angry because people weren't letting kids get to him.

And yet some of the pharisees in the crowd said, so this is chief priests and scribes didn't really like it. Well, pharisees are ringing in now and saying, teacher, rebuke your disciples. You know better than this. This is the temple. Rebuke your disciples.

Stop them from attributing glory to you. Stop them because of this. Save us now, messiah. Blessed is the one who comes and save us now from on high. Save us now.

Save us now. Blessed is the king. Oh my. And this upsets the leadership. All of the leadership.

All of the branches. All of the different ideologies among the spectrum. The Herodians will actually eventually get in on the act. Doesn't mention them by name yet. And yet some of the pharisees in the crowd said to him, teacher, rebuke your disciples.

They became indignant. They said to him, do you hear what these children are saying, Jesus? It's not just that they're saying it out loud and they're dancing around and joyfully. They're saying, Hosanna, son of David. Do you hear them what they're saying?

And Jesus said to him, yes, I hear it. I hear it. Have you have you all never heard that from the mouths of infants and nursing babies, you have prepared praise for yourself? Jesus replied, I tell you what, if these stop speaking, the stones are gonna cry out. This news cannot be contained.

Ah, Psalm 19. There's no language where God's voice cannot be heard. Night after night, the the heavens declare the glory of God, and the earth is always praising him. There's no language where this cannot be understood. Jesus replied, I tell you, if these stop speaking, the stones will cry out.

In my office, there's a little rock in there that the kids minister here. I think it was Crystal Hub Day. They painted a bunch of rocks and it says, praise the Lord on the top of it. And if you flip it over, it says, or I will. Jesus replied, I tell you, if these stop speaking, the very stones will cry out.

The chronological note. So this is Luke, sorry, that says this in verse 40. It's Luke that says, if these stop speaking, the stones will cry out. I think that the rock in there is cute, but Jesus goes on. This is back to our chronological note.

Slightly out of sequence because where he does this is up above when he approached Jerusalem. So when he is still up on the hillside and looking down, when he approached Jerusalem Now, I want to go back and read to you the resolute stance of Luke nine. Not 19. Nine fifty one is where that turn. I've told you about Bach's commentary.

Bach, Darryl Bach has a great commentary on Luke. And the first one is from one one to nine fifty. And the second one is nine fifty one where it says, when the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. And it came to pass, k j b, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. NASB is what I usually use here on Sundays.

When the days were approaching for his ascension, he was determined to go to Jerusalem. NIV, as the time approached for him to be taken to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem as the time drew near for him to ascend to heaven. Jesus resolutely set out New Living Translation. The NRSB, and when the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. And then the last one, Young's living translation is always interesting because it's straight up not living, literal.

Young's literal translation. And it came to pass in the completing of the days of his being taken up, completely strictly going with the verbal forms, that he fixed his face to go on to Jerusalem. So when he approached Jerusalem, this is 10 chapters later, and he's arriving there. All of this that we've been going since chapter nine in Luke. When he approached Jerusalem, he saw the city.

And again, somewhat pretty good estimate right there. And he looks down and he sees that glorious Temple Mount. Actually, second temple constructed by Herod the Great. So he's got to be thinking of Solomon's first temple and the second temple. Who knows what else?

But when he approached and he saw the city, he wept over it. And when it says Jesus wept in John over Lazarus' death about the sisters' grief about Lazarus' death. It's a different word. This word is ecclausen. It's the aorist, active, indicative, third person singer from he wept.

He wept for or he mourned or he lamented. And if you go with the properly, it is to weep out loud expressing uncontainable and audible grief. That kind of grief. That kind of you can't keep it back kind of crying is what it is. It's used various times in the Bible, but weeping bitterly or weeping aloud.

We hear LOL all the time. This is COL. This is crying out loud. Okay? It's a real lament that is so deep guttural.

And he wept over it, and he gave voice to it too. If you had known on this day if you had known on this day, even you, the conditions that make for peace. If you had known. And what they're all singing about is save us now. Peace is with you.

We we're we're what what's going on? But he's crying over the city. The people who are around him may be absolutely right. And at the same time, that city below, he knows what's coming. He's already told him he'd be crucified.

He's already told him that multiple times. If you had known on this day, even you, from all of your political stripes, if all of you had known what it would be like to just be at peace if you'd known the conditions that make for peace. But now, these things have been hidden from your eyes. You have been whipped up into a froth and there seems to be no backing down. Now, what's coming is coming.

They've been hidden from your eyes for the days will come upon you, Jerusalem, when your enemies will put up a barricade against you. Seed ramp. This came to pass in seventy AD. The days are coming upon you when your enemies will put up a barricade against you and they will surround you and they will hem you in on every side. There's nobody that gets in.

There's nobody that gets out. It is absolute calamity. And we have that described in Josephus and a couple of other sources. And it was exactly like Jesus said. It says, They will level you to the very ground and they will throw down your children within you and they will not leave in you one stone upon another when he said that if these children don't cry out like this, the stones will.

These stones give testimony to that. I'm sorry. I'm gonna weep bitterly. Sorry. Because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.

That word, the visitation, is talking about when Almighty God inserts himself into human affairs. Every day he is reaching out with mercy and grace and forgiveness and he's promised that he will give you peace if you will just humbly ask for it. And he, Jesus, is saying, if only you had just done that. If only you had done that, Jerusalem. If only you didn't have to have all this fight, all of you, all the time, all of the turmoil, all the time, if you just humble yourself.

You might recognize your visitation. This actually is the this is a current photograph of Dominus Flevet, Latin I'm not a Latin guy. Dominus Flevet, Flevet, something like that, is a is a church that means the Lord wept. And it's a Catholic church that is placed up on the Mount Of Olives. And that's the view from the window looking down on the Temple Mount where there is no temple.

Right? That's a comp that's a that's a today photograph. I'd say today is the day of salvation. Today is what we've got. And if God is reaching out and kind of urging you to just humbly accept what it is, whatever what it is that he has for you.

Whether it is to accept him for who he is, this is the time of God's visitation on your heart. I pray that you would do that. And just accept him for who he says that he is. That we wouldn't rear up in pride, that we would peacefully allow Jesus, to take control. If he is directing you towards a ministry or towards someone that you need to forgive or he's directing you towards something that he would have you do.

I would say like the disciples, they just go ahead and do it. Whatever it is. Right? Whatever it is that he asked of you. Today is that day too.

Matthew says, and he left them. And he went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there. And then Mark. And after looking around at everything, this is Mark. This cracks me up.

After Luke tells all that about him crying and all the miracles in Matthew and everything else, Mark just is so short and succinct because and after he looked around, it's always like, all right, Let's get out of here. He left for Bethany with the twelve. Since it was already late, they went up the hill again. And he'll come back down for this was Palm Sunday as we know it. Holy Monday is happening tomorrow.

We'll probably get to that next week. Would you stand? The altar is always open and I'm available. We're available. If you want to talk about what it is you feel like God may be urging you to do or if you feel like this is a time of your visitation where the spirit of God is is reaching out to you to do or to say or to act out in some way by his direction.

I'm I'm willing to walk through it with you, to talk through it with you. God, would you help us? Would you help us to know our hour of visitation? Would you help us to know and would you help us to walk it out in the same spirit that you walked it out? Lord, it may cause us to weep bitterly what it is you have for us, but I pray that for such a time as this, you have us where you want us to be to do what it is you want us to do.

And so, Lord, would you show us your way and allow us the grace to walk in it? Amen. In Jesus name, may we be unified. May we realize that we have been called out of and called into the family of God. In Jesus name, may we walk out that unity.

Amen.