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Palm Sunday, 2025. And tonight, my illustrious co-host and producer is none other than the Kenny Pihoski. Good evening, Pastor. Good evening, Kenny.

And we're going to start tonight. The title of the message is Jesus Offers Himself to the Nation of Israel, or the short version is called the Triumphant Entry on this Palm Sunday. And so we're going to start right there in God's Word, the Bible, on Matthew chapter 21 and verse 1.

And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage unto the Mount of Olives, then sent Jesus to disciples. Now, here, you know, it's called the triumph entry, but God's ways are so much higher than our ways, and sometimes, you know, we see the here and the now, but God sees the big picture, the long run. And here, humanly speaking, in many ways, it's far from a triumph of entry because here, at the end of the day, the Lord Jesus is going to predict His rejection by His own people. Now, had they received Him, they would have gone directly into Millennial Kingdom. This was a horrible, horrible tragedy.

Because of this, it caused so much pain and suffering for the nation of Israel, and for the rest of the world, too, in many ways. Yeah, but it fulfilled prophecy, though. Yeah, it fulfilled prophecy, for sure. In fact, we'll take a look at some of that prophecy as we go through here. Now, listen, when I'm taking this, think into it, often if you listen very carefully, you'll see a message, and it's not an esoteric message, but He's saying something, and you'll see what this extreme intelligence is saying, what the Lord is saying when He says, Go into the village over against you, and straightway you shall find an ass tied and a colt with her.

Loose them and bring them unto Me. Now, here, do you know what the interesting thing about that verse is? That here, you have, it's the only account here where both the mother and the foe are mentioned. When we read over in Mark 11-2 and Luke 19-30, they only mention the colt, and they don't mention the Shias. Now, there are people who say, well, you see now, the Bible contradicts itself, because here it's saying it's only saying, or it's saying it's both the Shias and the colt, but over there, it's only saying that it's the colt, no? It's not only saying that, you see? Not every passage of Scripture gives you every single detail, okay? Otherwise it'd be the same book. Right. And so, just like, you know, I gave an example this morning in the Scripture telling the people, because see, there are those people that will do anything they can trying to, trying to prove in some way that the Bible has contradictions or errors, okay? Yeah.

And it doesn't. You know, God gave us this book. And so, for example, I gave the example that I can say, look, you see here? I can tell you that Eric is sitting right here in this first front row, this pew here. Now, there he is. But now, I didn't mention that Laura and Peter were sitting right behind him, okay? I didn't mention that. Oh, so you must be contradicting yourself. Right.

Yeah. So, people have to understand, this is one of the reasons, Kenny, do you know why, believe it or not, in criminal cases, prosecutors love eyewitnesses. They love to get eyewitnesses.

Do you know why? Because they don't see everything. Well, no, they see everything from a different vantage point. Yeah, it all relies on a certain point of view.

Right. So, the prosecutor could get one person up and say, well, what did you ask him? And he will say, this is what I saw, okay? Then, he'll get somebody else up there from a different perspective or a different view, and he'll say, well, you see, his testimony completely contradicts his testimony when, in actuality, it doesn't. It just, you know.

It's just a different point of view. Right. It just, you know, right. So, he goes on to say, now listen to this, if any man say aught unto you, that's anything, you shall say, the Lord hath need of them, and straightaway he will send them. Now, think of that verse for a minute now. He's sending these disciples, and he's telling them, if anyone says, what are you doing, you are to say, the Lord has need of them, and they'll send them right away. Now, so what does that tell you right there?

There's something that's making a great statement. That they're going to see resistance to their message? Well, he's telling you that there were already people there that believed that Jesus was the Lord, who believed in him. And so, he's telling you this, and he's telling you once someone says something, you tell them, and they will send you. So, he's telling them two things. One is that he's speaking about his deity, how he knows what the future is, but two, he's going to let you know that there are people already there that know that he is the Lord, who he is.

Okay? And so, he goes on to say, All this was done, that it might be fulfilled, that which was spoken by the prophets, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Zion, behold, the king cometh, there meek and sitting about an ass, and a colt, and a foal of an ass. Now, there's, okay, do you know what that means when it says a colt and a foal of an ass? Do you know what a foal of an ass is?

Um, wouldn't that be female? No, it means that it's not broken, it's not ready to be written. And then, with anybody else, in this case, it would not have been able to be written, but in this case, Jesus was not everybody, anybody else, was he?

Yeah. And so, in fact, I tell you, let's take a jump over to Isaiah 62, verse 11. Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, say ye to the daughter of Zion, behold, thy salvation cometh upon his reward, is with him, and his work before him. And so, here, going back to verse 5.

Tell ye the daughter of Zion, behold, the king cometh. Now, then we go over to Zechariah, chapter 9, and in verse 9, now this is an interesting thing here. You know, we often tell you that the Bible is not in chronological order, okay? Sometimes it takes you way ahead, and then two verses later you go back a thousand years, right? And in this case, it's in chronological order, except for there's a huge gap, as we read in Zechariah, chapter 9, verse 9. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, behold, thy king cometh unto thee, he is just, and having salvation lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, and the foal of an ass.

That's very important that that is put in there, okay? And so, here, the next verse, though, you see, this is about the first coming. This was referring to the first coming of our Lord Jesus, but now you jump ahead, the very next verse, verse 10, you jump ahead over 2,000 years, over 2,000 years. And I will, this is the second coming of Messiah, and I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bowl shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace unto the heathen, and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from river even to the ends of the earth.

So, I'm not going to go on on that, but he, so, in that, it jumps ahead over 2,000 years. Now, here, this is clearly, clearly a messianic prophecy that's quoted, you know, what we just read, both in Matthew 21, again in Mark 11, 2, Luke 19, 30, and John 12, verses 14 and 15. Now, what does that tell you, okay, when you have a quote that's in all four of the Gospels, it's right here in Zechariah, but it's in all four of the Gospels, that tells you that has a very profound meaning, doesn't it? Yeah, it's something very important.

Because you won't find any others like that, will you? I don't think so. Okay, so, here, what we're referring to, this is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, but now he doesn't enter into Jerusalem as other kings would. Now, here, they'll tell you, what's commonly stated, that in those days, in that culture, when the kings would come to Jerusalem, if they were coming in peace, they would ride on a donkey. Well, that was, in some cases, you know, you see, there's a lot of stuff out there, you've got to be very careful, there's a lot of commentaries, and people pick up, and one of the men told me this like it was a fact, well, it was in some cases, but not, usually when the kings came in, they came in with chariots and an entourage, and riding horses, whether it was peace or whether it was war.

They came in that way, okay? Now, the Jewish, some of the Jewish kings, that would be different with them, they would have the custom, and they might come in riding on a donkey, okay? In a time of peace. And so, here, Jesus, instead of coming in, now here's the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, okay, but instead of coming in, you know, with this huge entourage, he chose a lowly, to come in as a lowly, afflicted on a lowly donkey, identifying himself with the poor. And so, here, do you know what the name Jesus means? Um, would it be Messiah? Salvation. Salvation, okay.

Salvation, okay. And so, I want to go now over to, well, we'll just jump ahead real quick to Revelation 22, just in Revelation 22. So here is three different instances, okay, the past, the present, when he's speaking, the Lord Jesus, okay, and then the future of Revelation in Revelation 22, verses 12 and 13. And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Okay, so here, in all three of these, he's talking about the appearance of Messiah coming. And so, do you know what the word Hosanna means?

Holy? No, it means, it's a translation of Hebrew word meaning, please save us, please save us. In fact, if you go, let's go over to 118 soul.

We go to 118 soul, I believe it's 118 soul. Oh, yes, here it is, verse 25. Now I beseech thee, O thee, O Lord, O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, who hath blessed you out of the, blessed you out of the house of the Lord. Okay, and so, here, I want to go to, blessed be the name of the Lord, the name of the Lord, that we cometh. And so now, Jesus coming in, and that was the name of the Lord, was what?

Salvation. That's what his name means, salvation. And so, here, when we go back, go on to verse 9. Now the multitudes that went before him followed and cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son, in other words, save us now, of David. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest.

So this, that psalm that I just read, 118 Psalm, this verse, verse 9, is a fulfillment of that psalm. And when he was coming to Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? Well, here you had a lot of Galileans there, and the Galileans were aware, but they looked upon Jesus as a prophet of God, but they thought that he had the power to overthrow the Roman government.

Which he did, but that's not why he was there. Right, yeah, because, see, here, it's hard for me to fathom, I mean, you know, those famous words that will live in infamy of Forrest Gump, Stupid is as stupid does. And it's just hard for me to fathom because, you know, the scribes, the Pharisees, the agencies, they had this verse. They had Isaiah 53, which perfectly described the Lord Jesus Christ, perfectly.

In other words, you couldn't hardly miss that one. Then they had these other verses that we're reading here, and so they're seeing this man come and he's fulfilling the Scriptures perfectly. Nobody else has done that.

Nobody. And so he's doing exactly what the prophets had said he would do. Yeah, but they didn't want to believe it. Right, because they were not looking, they did not want to, the suffering Messiah of Isaiah 53, they were looking past that.

They were looking to the conquering king of Revelation 19. Yeah. That's what, you see, look, a smart person would understand that it's better to obey God, right? From Genesis to Revelation, the one thing that God demanded above everything else was obedience, right?

Yes. And so here, and it's an amazing thing to me, how these religious leaders, how they could understand this. Well, not all of them rejected him. There were a number of them that received Christ as their Savior, and I'm talking about even those in the Sanhedrin. But here now, and the multitude said, this is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. So there was a lot of Galileans there in Jerusalem, and they were telling these people that had come from other areas, this is who he is.

This is Jesus of Nazareth, the prophet. And so then here we started in verse 12 about cleansing of the temple. Now, this is the second time that the Lord Jesus cleansed the temple. Very early in his ministry, he cleansed it for the first time. And here, you know, people said Jesus never got angry. Boy, that's not true. And so, I mean, what he did, you know, when he says he turned over the tables, do you know those tables were made of stone? Most of them had these big stone slabs. I'm sure he just gently pushed it over, right?

Probably not. He took a cat of nine tails and he whipped the Democrats. Well, they weren't called Democrats there, but, you know, he whipped them. And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables, the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves. And if you look over in Isaiah 56, verse 7, what we read over there in Isaiah 56, he says this.

I'm going to pass it up again. Even then will I bring to me my holy mountain and make them joyful in a house, in my house of prayer. And so here, also, if you go to, I believe it was Jeremiah chapter 7, 7, come 11 in Jeremiah, and in Jeremiah 7, come 11. So you're seeing here now two more prophecies being fulfilled.

So as we're going through here and we're seeing prophecy after prophecy being fulfilled, how could you possibly see this? Because they knew that. These scribes and Pharisees, they knew that. They had all this.

I mean, that's what they did all day. They studied this when they weren't treating the people. And so, in Jeremiah 7, verse 11, we read, Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers? In your eyes, behold, even I have seen it, saith the Lord. So he's making a distinction, and Jesus is making it very clear just by these statements about his identity, who he is.

Yeah, they should be picking up on all the clues. Yeah, by this time you would think. And so here, now, the temple dues, everybody had to pay a temple dues. I believe all the men from the age of 18 had to pay the temple dues. They called it the temple tax. It could only be paid with what they called sacred coinage. Now, the exchange of currency was controlled by the high priest's family, and it became a source of extortion.

In other words, it would be like today, the price of gold, the last I looked, was like $3,200. And so they would say, well, he's going to exchange this, it'll be $3,800. And so they were cheating. Yeah, they'd mark it up.

Right, they were cheating. And so they were robbing, but they turned God's house, it was supposed to be a house of prayer, into a bazaar. And you know what a bazaar is, don't you?

It's like a, I don't know, kind of like a flea market, isn't it? Yeah. Has anyone ever called you bazaar?

Bazaar? Yeah, probably. Yeah, they use that term. That's a little bit bizarre, isn't it, now? Yeah, it's like, it's kind of like a flea market or, you know, I'm trying to think of another word for it. But anyhow, and so here we go over and we read verse, where did I leave off?

Yeah. When he says, And then, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but you have made it into a den of thieves. So, now the second, I'm going to jump over to the second time, or the first time, because this was the second time that Jesus cleansed it. And the first time, you'd have to go over to John chapter 2, and in John chapter 2, verses 13 all the way through 25, we read this. Now, listen carefully, because I'm going to ask you a question and see what you think. Now, John is writing this letter here.

That's what this is. And the Jews' Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now, John was a Jew, so why do you think he said, And the Jews' Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem? Maybe because he was identifying as a Christian now? Well, he was actually writing this letter mostly to the Gentiles. Okay. For them, yeah.

Okay. And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep, doves, and the changes of money. And when he had made a scourging of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the oxen had poured out the changes, money, and overthrew their tables. And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence, make not my father's house a house of merchandise. And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

And do you know what that is? If we jump right over to Psalm 69. Let me go to Psalm 69, verse 9. We read this, For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproached her have fallen upon me.

And when I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. And so here he fulfilled, how many, what's that, about the fifth prophecy that he's fulfilled already here? Something like that, yeah. And so, so just in this little amount of time, you've got these leaders, these religious leaders seeing this here, and somehow it's not, they're not picking up on it at all. Again, I think they're just choosing not to believe it. Right.

They see it, it's all unfolding in front of them, they know what the signs are, and they're just choosing to turn a blind eye. You're right. Now let me read this again, because there's another message in here, in the conversation. And he said unto them that sold the doves, Take these things hence, make not my father's house a house of merchandise. Why did he say, make not my father's house, why didn't he say, our fathers, remember they all started a prayer with our father, and our father God, our father Abraham. So why did he say, my father's house, he was, there was a message there that he was putting out.

Yeah, I think he was trying to drop a not so subtle hint. That he was the only begotten son of God. Exactly.

The only begotten son of God. Now, what does that mean? Okay, so, I'll bet Kenny, and I'd be 100% I think on this, you had a father, didn't you? Yeah, I did. Yeah, I knew it. See, I know things like this, I've studied all these years. Yeah, it's doing you well. That means that you were begotten by your father.

Uh huh. Okay, you were his son, you were begotten by him, nobody else but by him. Now, when Jesus made that statement, here, he was the only begotten of the father. In other words, he, and he alone, is the only son of God. Okay, so what he's talking about, that the only begotten son of God. Now, the Word of Faith movement, I was listening to, and I couldn't help myself, you know, I get up very early in the morning, and when I'm getting ready, I often, I try to find a good gospel preacher on and listen to him while I'm getting dressed and things, but I come across Kenneth Copeland. Oh boy.

And, but he's entertaining, because, boy, that guy can make some faces. And so, anyhow, I'm listening to him, I've got to see what absolute lunacy is he going to be spouting. Well, he was saying that, here, that every bit that in him and in all these people he was talking to, every bit, every single one of you have as much God in you, you have as much of the Father in you as Jesus does. Well, that's preposterous. Well, that's, that is blasphemy. Yeah. That's blasphemy. Okay. And, and so, he always, you know, he's made this statement, and that Jesus, of course, was not the only begotten son of God. We're all God's, that's blasphemy. Now, remember what Paula White said just a couple weeks ago. Yeah. When she said that wherever she stands is holy ground.

Wherever she stands is holy ground. Okay. You know, this woman, boy, I'm going to tell you, she said when she goes to the White House, she said, when I go into the White House, God has gone into the White House. You know, but I'm going to tell you, these people, they're in for an extremely, extremely rude awakening.

Okay. See, what they've done is they've gone and coped in these, and they've, they've taken and they've made their own perversion of God's Word, the Bible. They've made their own perversion of the Bible. Well, and it sounds like they're trying to make themselves equal to God. Yeah.

What? That's exactly what they're doing. Kenneth Copeland says, just like cats have kittens, they're little cats, dogs have puppies, they're little dogs, and God has little gods, and He is a little God. And now that word God with a small g used in Scripture usually refers to judges, so a judge, someone of authority.

But here, that's not the way they're using it. They're little deities. And I won't remember Copeland holding up the perversion of the Bible and saying, you can take this book right here, this is the Word of God, and you can make God deliver material things.

You can make Him, yeah, in other words, you can extort God. You can take and hold Him to this Word, and in this Word you can, and see what they've done is they've perverted the Scriptures. They don't understand that God knows they've perverted the Scriptures, and they soon will. I don't know who's more crazy, them or the people following them. Well, you know, they play off people's greed is what they do. Telling them what they want to hear as opposed to what they need to hear.

Tickling their ears, yeah. Like it says in 2 Timothy chapter 3, sneaking into houses filled with silly women, did you ever notice, like Joe Osteen and these people, Paula White, and over 80% of the people there in the assembly are women? Are women. Why do you think that is? The Bible gives you a very clear reason for that, but what do you think it is?

I don't know. Are they more susceptible to it? The Bible says that where the enemy attacks women is in the area of discernment. That's right.

In the area of discernment. This is why the Apostle Paul said that, you know, women should not be pastors or they should not pastor church, you know. And then wasn't it pride for men?

Yeah. I had ladies from the Pro-Life Action League of Ohio call me. I was talking to them yesterday about an event coming up in June, and they were telling me how they wish that this event was specifically about pastors taking control and teaching and taking authority in their families, taking authority over their wives and children. That's what these women are saying. This is what Christian women want.

We want men that are strong and want to take their rightful place as the heads of the house. And they were telling me that what these feminists have done is they've feminized these men. They've gutted them. They've taken all the fight out of them. They've turned them into wimps.

They've just destroyed them. And, of course, they used the courts out there, especially divorce court, to do that today. You know, just to take, you know, just to make them exactly the opposite of what God's word in the Bible says a man should be, huh? And so he goes on to say, Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign showest thou unto us, seeing that thou does these things? And Jesus said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple and building, and thou wilt raise it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body, when therefore he was risen from the dead. His disciples remembered that he had said this unto them, and they believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had said. Now, when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover in the feast day, many believed in his name, and when they saw the miracles which he did. But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, and needed not that they should testify of man, for he knew what was in man. And so, here now, the Lord Jesus had come, he had made it very, very clear about his identity, who he was, and he came and he made his offer, he proclaimed himself here to the nation of Israel, that he was here, okay, to proclaim himself to the nation of Israel. And they refused him.

The religious leaders all refused him. And then, going back to where we were at over there in Matthew chapter 21, picking it up where we left off over in verse 18. Now here's the cursing of the fig tree, cursing of the fig tree. Now, there's something interesting about fig trees that are different, unique from all others. And that is that the fruit normally always appears on the tree around Israel there around February.

It's the only trees that I know of where the fruit comes before the leaves. The fruit appears, and then after, by the end of spring, the leaves are all on the trees. And so, Jesus had come, and it was time now for the figs to be on the tree, and ready to eat.

And so, here now in the morning, he returned into the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforth forever. And presently the fig tree withered away.

And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away? Now in these next verses, okay, what comes into play here, Kenny, is like, okay, for example, you know, there's terms and things that we use today, a word that usually has another meaning, okay, or a significant meaning for the time and the place. And some of them, you know, have had those meanings for years and years. For example, did you ever hear that song, This Time You Gave Me a Mountain, okay, it's a song that goes, it's about, it's a story about a man whose wife takes off and leaves him alone with his little, I think, six-year-old boy. And he has to raise this boy by himself and with all kinds of, very, very poor, very destitute. And so he says, you know, my life's been one hill after the other, but this time you gave me a mountain, a mountain I'll never climb, okay. And so the mountain represented what? It represented adversity.

It represented hard times. And today we still use that term, boy, I'm up against the mountain this time, right? And so now listen to what Jesus says, if you listen carefully to what he's saying here. Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, now he's talking to the disciples, they just watched him, watched that fig tree wither before their very eyes, okay. If you have faith and doubt not, in other words, you have to really, really believe. Now, Peter didn't really believe, the apostles didn't really believe, Jesus' own brothers didn't really believe until he raised himself from the dead. Then they believed, right? Then they really believed. They believed right up until the cross, huh. You shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if you shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea, it shall be done. The mountain that they had at that time was the persecution by the Roman government, okay.

And we could have had two applications, too. I mean, they could have been right there at the Mount of Olives was a mountain, but they referred to that, you know, a mountain as... troubles. Yeah. And so, and then the other word is cast into the sea. Now the sea always referred to Gentile nations, the nations in Gentile nations.

In other words, brought down into the Gentile nations, okay. And so here, in all these things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing you shall receive. Now often, in Scripture, you had things that had several applications, several applications. Here, going back to, I just want to jump back to verse 16 for a minute here. And said unto him, hearest thou when they say what they say, and Jesus said unto them, you have, you never read, out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise. Now, Jesus is quoting right from Psalm 8, too. Again, here's one more prophecy being fulfilled that we're seeing here, one after the other after the other. Christ was rebuked, the chief priests and the scribes, for rebuking the children that were crying in the temple. Thus children may and often do have better spiritual insights than their elders.

So, here, going back to verse, I want to go back to verse 15. And when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, saying, Hosanna, save us now, to the son of David. They were sore displeased. In other words, the children were so excited.

Of course, these things were something new to them and probably scared on that. But the Pharisees were rebuking the children. And here now, the Lord Jesus is rebuking the Pharisees for doing that. And so, here, we pick it up in verse 23. And when he had come to the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority dost thou these things, and who gave thee this authority? And so, here, you know, first of all...

It kind of sounds like they're just pretty much saying, Who do you think you are? Well, yeah, he was doing miracles. Everybody's following him. And now the chief priests and Pharisees, the people aren't listening to them, they're listening to this Jesus, and they know how crooked they become anyhow, right? And so, but remember, they always wanted a sign.

Now, here's what Jesus did. Remember, they were always trying to have a battle of wits with the Lord Jesus, and he always answered them with a question. Now, I noticed that, and, you know, my years in the ministry, especially in the pro-life ministry, just preaching out there in the streets in front of those bloody abortion mills, I got arrested I don't know how many times, all kinds of false charges. Now, we beat them every time, but I often ended up, finding myself, ended up in court there, up on the witness stand, being interrogated by the persecutors. And I always answered their questions with a question, and it frustrated them. Now, at one time, there was this ACL judge named Linda Sogg, Rocker Sogg, and she was trying to get a conviction. So, she was asking me, you know, were you using foul language, cursing, and threatening this old lady, well, she wasn't a lady, this old woman who worked at the bloody abortion mill, she was actually at one end of the parking lot, I was at the other.

But they were accusing me, because they wanted me, because they considered me the leader. And so, my response to her was, why in the world would you even ask me such a question? So, I answered her question with a question, and it kept going on, and I kept doing that answer, and so she gets frustrated, and she says to the judge, judge, I mean, because this went on for a little while, she said, would you please make him answer the question? So, the judge says to me, will you answer the question?

I says, what is the question? And the judge says, I don't know! And so, the judge says, what is the question, Linda? And Linda says, never mind, never mind.

She don't know anymore either. No. Almost sounds like a stooges bit. It was interesting. And so, Jesus answered and said unto them, I also ask you one thing, which if you tell me, unlike wise, shall tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John, whence was it, from heaven or men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, if we shall say from heaven, he shall say unto us, why did you not then believe him? But if we shall say of men, we fear the people, for all hold John as a prophet. And they answered Jesus and said, we cannot tell.

And he said unto them, neither tell I you by what authority I do these things. Now, do you think that Jesus had perceived what they were going to ask him to begin with? Of course. It's a pretty good bet, isn't it?

Yeah. And so, here, this is the parable of this Palm Sunday, which is today Palm Sunday. Next week we have the message on the resurrection.

And so, in fact, we need to actually jump ahead a little bit here, I think, tonight, and just read just a little bit of as we get into it next week. Here, I want to pick it up in Matthew 26. And this is what the deep state of his day did. These were those that were using lawfare of that day. These were the scribes, the Pharisees, the lawyers. Remember, Jesus said, woe unto you lawyers, woe unto you lawyers, woe unto you lawyers.

Right? And it came to pass that when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, you know that after two days is the feast of the Passover, and the Son of Man is betrayed to be crucified. And so, then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people unto the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas, and consulted that they might take Jesus subtly and kill him.

But they said, not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people. And so, and now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, there came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head as he said it meet. Here, you know, there's the papayas fragments originating in the southern Egypt, which includes parts of this very verse right here, and also part of Matthew 26 verse 10, and part of verse 14.

They found these here have recently been dated at about 75 AD. Now, this date indicated that the form of scripture used makes these fragments almost, Kenny, almost the earliest copies known from the New Testament. These had been copied from some actually earlier manuscripts so that they would seem to prove that at least this gospel was written as far back as the time of Christ himself. So, contrary to the opinions of a number of, in other words, this was part that was actually written while the Lord Jesus was still there, still walking the earth, right?

And so he goes on to say, but when the disciples saw it, he had indignation saying, to what purpose this waste, this ointment may have been sold for much and given to the poor. Who do you think it was that would say that? Um, was that Jesus? Pardon? No.

No. Jesus is chastising the disciples, but there's one in particular. He kept the purse. He kept the... Oh, would it be Judas?

Yep, that's who it was. And so, Judas, you don't think he might have been maybe smuggling some of that money, huh? So when Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble you, you, the woman, for she hath wrought a good work upon me? What was it she was doing? She was actually preparing him for his burial, huh? And for you have the poor always with you, but me, you have not always.

For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. Barely I say unto you, whosoever this gospel, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her. Well, that's another prophecy that was just fulfilled just right now, huh? How many is that tonight, about six or eight? Yeah, around there.

Yeah. And so, then here comes Judas. Then one of the twelve called Judas Iscariot went into the chief priests.

I think I'm going to stop right there and here. I want to thank all you folks for being with us here on this Palm Sunday, and I hope you enjoyed the Bible study tonight. The way God's Word is the greatest source of wisdom, the greatest source of knowledge, and it is the highest authority. The Word of God is the highest authority in the land. Not everybody believes that, but they all will. They all will. In fact, every single person that has ever been born, who's ever lived, including all of those that are living right now, will believe. They will believe every word that proceeded from the mouth of God, every word that's written in this book, and that'll happen. There's no unbelievers in heaven or hell, whether they were in glory or torment. They all believe.

There's no doubt amongst them anymore. And that's why it's so important when we give that salvation message. Folks, if you can only understand this world that you're living in is temporal. All these things that you might want, all these material things, the pleasures of this world, all these things, they're very temporal.

They're very short. They'll be gone now. And the people that place their trust and place their faith in these temporal things, boy, I'm going to tell you things that it's not going to end well for them. It won't.

It's just not going to end well for them at all. And you say, well, I don't choose to believe that. It doesn't matter what you believe.

The reality is what God says, you see. I'll bet you that none of you ever had 1,800 prophecies fulfilled, right? I'll bet none of you ever expanded thousands and thousands and thousands of years, okay? I'll bet none of you ever created a single planet or a star, okay?

Nope. Probably none of you ever made a rock or a stone, right? But, see, God has got his powers unlimited. God's authority is unlimited. And God, what he says of himself, I have said it and I will do it, okay? And so far God's record is 100 percent. He's done what he said. And this is why he tells you that apart from Christ out there, you're going to die and when you die, you're either going to end up very quickly in heaven or hell.

And believe me, you don't want to end up in a ladder. You see, this is, you've got God's word upon it. It is the highest authority that ever existed right here. The Word of God spoke the entire universe into being. You say, well, I don't believe that that's possible.

Well, it doesn't matter, like I said, what you believe. It's what God has done. It's what God has done.

He's done this. If you don't believe me, go out there, stand up on your porch and to look around, you'll see planet Earth. You'll see all those trees, you'll see the skies, the moons. Everything is there and God didn't leave you in the dark.

He told you exactly how it all came about. If you're smart enough to read and understand. And again, he says, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because, like we spoke earlier, people, they know what they want to believe instead of what they should believe.

What they need to believe is the truth. So call upon the name of the Lord tonight. Go to John chapter 3, read it and do it. Repent of your sin. Ask God the Father to forgive your sins. Ask the Lord Jesus to be Lord of your life all the life.

Become a new creature, born again believer, and escape that burning lake of fire. Okay. Well, Kenny, you've been a great co-host tonight. I appreciate it.

And it seems like every week you become more and more knowledgeable. Well, I would hope so. I'm trying to retain some of this.

Yes. You're doing good pretty soon. We'll have you ready to start teaching. All right. It's time for me to say, as we do every night at this time, thanks for being here. God bless. God bless. I want to say to all of you out there, have a good night, great night. Good night. And we want to say always, always, always, always.

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