Palm Sunday - Hosanna!

Steve Stevenson: Amen.

I love, love, love that video, and it's such a perfect setup for today's lesson

as we talk about the triumphal entry.

And when I think about Jesus, there is so much amazing stuff in today's topic

that I'm not gonna be able to hit it all, but I'm gonna be asking you guys

to go back home and do some homework.

But, uh, this is, this clip really captures the joy.

And the excitement of the triumphal entry.

And I really want us to really think about today, how does this apply to us?

How does this apply to our context today?

Because the reality as Jesus came in from the Mount of Olives, went

down into the Kidron Valley, went up and through, they went through the

east gate and then up to the temple.

You know, he was traveling a path.

That needed to be traveled because of things that had happened in the

past, which I'll get to in my lesson.

But before we do that, I did want to just say it's great to be here.

It's good to be able to speak to the church, uh, in the new era.

It's good to be able to dig into God's word and to study out the things that

I believe God is calling each one of us to do and to be in his kingdom.

Amen.

Yes.

Let's go ahead and pray.

Earth.

Father, I wanna thank you.

God, it is so encouraging

to dig into your word.

It is so inspiring to be able to worship you, to be able to honor

you, to be able to lift you up.

I pray God, that we would hold your scriptures in high regard, that we

would've a high view of your word and that we would make decisions today.

Not to simply listen to the word and deceive ourselves,

but to truly do what it says.

God, I pray that today as I preach the word that this lesson would be a

demonstration of your Holy Spirit's power.

Work through me for your glory.

Work through me.

For your honor.

I love you.

I ask all this in Jesus name.

Amen.

Amen.

As you can see, the title of today's lesson is Hosanna.

Amen.

You know, in Mark chapter 11, if you can turn your Bibles there, mark

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chapter 11, verse one through 11.

I'm gonna go ahead and read this.

I know, Vicki, I just took off my glasses.

You don't like it when I do that, but I'm gonna go ahead and do it anyway.

Um, in Mark chapter 11, in verse one, it says, as they approached Jerusalem

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and came to Beth Phage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent

two of his disciples saying to them.

Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you'll find a cult tied

there, which no one has ever ridden.

Untie it and bring it here.

If anyone asks you, why are you doing this?

Say, the Lord needs it and he will send it back here shortly.

So they went and they found a coal outside the street tied it a doorway.

As they untied it, some people standing their ass, what are you doing untying?

That cult, they answered as Jesus had told them, the Lord needs

it and the people let them go.

When they brought the cult to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it.

Many people spread their cloaks on the road while others spread branches.

They had cut in the fields.

Those who went ahead and those who followed, shouted, Hosanna.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father, David, Hosanna

in the highest heaven.

Jesus entered Jerusalem and he went into the temple courts.

He looked around at everything, but since it was already late, he

went out to Bethany with the 12.

You know, this passage of scripture is,

I mean, this story's in all four gospels.

It was an important story.

It was an important setup for what will be the Easter service next week,

and so I'm excited about next week, but I'm also excited for today because

today can prepare our hearts if we will allow it to prepare our hearts.

Amen.

Let's go ahead and get into the study.

Again, we just read this, but in Mark 11 verse one through two, as they

approached Jerusalem, they came to Beth Phage, Bethany at the Mount of Olives.

Jesus sent two of his disciples saying to them, go to the village

ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you'll find a cult tied there.

I forgot we had those screens, so I'm gonna look at that now.

Okay.

It's pretty awesome actually.

Uh, saying to them, go to the village ahead of you, just as you

enter it, and you will find a cold tide there, which no one has ever

ridden, untied, and bring it here.

Why is it important that it had never been ridden?

Well, we know that Jesus is the, we know Jesus is the Messiah, and

we know that Jesus is our king.

We understand that, and Jesus knew that he was a king.

But Jesus knew that when he came in that he was not gonna

be on this white stallion.

He wasn't gonna be the kind of king, he wasn't gonna be the kind of Messiah that

people throughout history had been sitting around the campfire telling their kids

about David was this warrior like king, and one day a Messiah is gonna come.

And he's gonna be like David, and he's gonna be this powerful king, and he

is gonna be this powerful warrior, and he's going to deliver his people.

And so this is what people were expecting.

So Jesus comes in on a donkey, which really means he would come in in

peace, but also that donkey could never have been ridden because if you

are a king, you only ride a donkey that no one else has ever ridden.

No one else is allowed to ride that donkey except the king himself.

Or if it was a horse, the horse himself.

You know, this is a prophecy fulfilled in Zacharia.

Nine nine, about 550 years earlier, the Bible said, rejoice greatly.

Daughter of Zion.

Shout daughter of Jerusalem.

See, your king comes to you righteous and victorious, lowly.

And riding on a donkey on a cult, the full of a donkey.

And you go, wow, this was, this is amazing.

Yeah.

Like it's amazing that the, that these prophecies are fulfilled and,

and, and even that was proceeded by this, in, in Genesis 49, 8

through 11, uh, as, as Jacob was.

Blessing the patriarchs as he was blessing his sons as he was giving

them their particular blessings.

The one he gave to Judah was this Judah, your brothers will praise you.

You were a lion's cub.

Judah, the scepter will not depart from Judah.

The scepter meaning like a king.

For the ruler staff from between his feet until he to whom it belongs shall come and

the obedience of the nations shall be his.

He will tether his donkey to a vine, his cult, to the

choice, to the choices branch.

He will wash his garments and wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

This is thousands of years before.

Right, right.

Yeah.

Guys, this blows me away that this blows me away.

There's other scriptures I can't even get into, and there's multiple prophecies

about Jesus, about this day, about this donkey, about, you know, Jesus coming in.

I mean, it's amazing.

And I go, how amazing is God's word?

I mean, how amazing is God's word?

When you look at this, these prophecies that are fulfilled,

this is not part of my lesson, but I just, I just have to say this.

Come on.

The Old Testament had approximately 324 prophecies that Jesus fulfilled.

Is that amazing?

I mean, Alfred Eiders Shine, who's a famous church historian,

he says conservatively.

At least 300 prophecies during his earthly ministry.

The Jewish voice website says, no, it's 324, but this

is just a quick little thing.

The chance of one single man, let's say this is fulfilling

even 48 of the prophecies.

And the reason I'm choosing 48 is because a mathematician named Peter Stoner

was asked about the probabilities.

Of any one person fulfilling even a small number of those prophecies.

So he said, Hey look, the chance of one single man fulfilling even 48

of the 324 is one times 10 to 157.

Lemme say that again.

That's one followed by 157 zeros.

Wow.

If you can't be down with the fact that the Bible is absolutely the word

of God, then this should help you.

Because I'm like, how do you, I mean, that's amazing and I can't even

imagine what the number have been.

If you, what are the probabilities of all 324?

I don't know if anyone can figure it out.

I certainly can't.

I certainly can't.

I know Kyle definitely can't, and so I, I really want to encourage us to

really look at the Bible and go, wow, what we are reading every single day

as we open up to read our Bible in our times with God is the word of God.

Yeah.

It's the powerful word of God that has the ability to transform

every single one of our lives.

Amen.

All right, mark chapter 11, verse three.

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If anyone asks, why are you doing this?

Say, the Lord needs it and he will send it back to your shortly.

Okay.

The Lord, you know the, the Greek word curios, which is the Greek, Sept, or.

Curios, you know, in the original Greek has three possible Greek meanings.

It could be, sir.

So think about this, sir.

The sir needs it.

Probably not it.

The master needs it.

Well, my master needs it too.

Okay, well how about the sovereign Lord and King needs it.

Yeah.

Alright, go ahead and take it.

Go ahead and take it.

I'm not even gonna question that.

Right.

I mean, this is amazing.

Just even how God had this planned in advance so many years in advance,

verse four through six, they went and found a colt outside in the street.

They tied it at the doorway, and as they untied it, some people standing their ass,

what are you doing on tying that cult?

They an, they answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go.

I just wanna share a few insights here that I think are important for

us and how this can apply to us today.

It's important for us to understand that God uses an ordinary cult

to reveal the extraordinary.

Already I've talked about how extraordinary the word of goddess,

but think about how extraordinary this experience was as that, as that cult

is just taking Jesus into the temple.

Into Jerusalem.

Think about how extraordinary that experience is and the, the

people were so fired up as they'd come in to celebrate the Passover.

Literally some people say there was as many as over a million people there.

It was a high fever pitch of praising God, honoring God.

So God uses an or the ordinary cult to reveal the extraordinary.

I think he uses ordinary people.

To do extraordinary.

Jesus chose 12 unschooled ordinary men.

Ordinary men can do extraordinary things with Jesus.

I love this.

The owner releases it when he understands the why.

Oh, why are you doing this?

The Lord needs it.

Oh, okay.

Sometimes we don't release our gifts or our talents.

Or even our money, as Ron talked about, unless you understand the

real need, the Lord needs it.

The Lord needs your gifts.

The Lord needs your talents.

As we've been trying to get this building prepared for the grand opening, which

is next Sunday, there's been a lot of work that needs to be done, and I'm so

grateful for all the work streams working together so that we can be set up.

Yeah, so that the church will be ready.

I'm so proud of the church and all the people that have worked

so hard, but the Lord needs us,

not because we 'cause we're such good people, but he needs us.

He needs to see our hearts are engaged, that we're not just here.

Just to fill a seat, but we are here to give our whole hearts to God.

Amen.

See, what is God asking you to release for his purposes?

God asked him to release a donkey.

What's he asking you to release?

It's something, I don't know what it is, but it's come to your mind already.

You already know what it is.

Don't be tight fisted.

Don't hold on.

I want it my way.

I wanna do things my way.

What about doing it Jesus' way?

Come on.

Don't hold on to bitterness.

Don't hold on to greed.

Don't hold on to an immoral relationship.

Don't hold on to.

Things that, you know, a job that's keeping you from seeking

first the kingdom of God.

Don't hold onto that stuff that keeps you from being the man or woman of

God that God has called you to be.

Imagine if this owner had been, no, you can't take my cult.

And then imagine he's in that crowd and then he sees Jesus riding on a cult.

He's like, oh, I missed the opportunity.

Yeah, that could have been my cult.

That could have been my cult, but I was so tight-fisted and I missed out on

experiencing God's purposes for my life.

We can't hold on.

Good point.

Because what we hold loosely, God can use miraculously.

You know, I'm excited about special missions coming up.

I'm really excited about it and you know that, but one of the things that I've seen

when it comes to special missions, this church has always risen to the occasion,

at least in the time I've been here.

Okay.

It has always risen to the occasion, and when we hold

loosely and go, you know what?

I wanna be generous.

I know we got 53 churches in Mexico and Central America.

But the result of your effort, we've already talked about this over a either.

We've either planted directly or we've helped individually fund over a hundred

churches just from Orange County.

What you hold loosely, God can use miraculously.

Amen.

You should clap 'cause you guys have done that.

You should clap even harder for that.

That's, that's pretty awesome.

That's the generosity of this church when it comes to special missions,

because you've held that loosely and God has used it miraculously.

There are so many things that God wants to do in our life.

If we just are willing to release to surrender, I'm gonna forgive this person.

I'm not gonna hold on to this bitterness any longer.

I just want to be used by you.

God, I'm sorry.

Do you understand what I'm talking about here?

Mark 11, verse seven and eight, when they brought the cult to Jesus and threw

their cloaks over it, he sat on it.

Many people spread their cloaks on the road while others spread branches.

They had cut in the fields again.

Why would people spread the cloaks on the road?

I don't really understand that.

Yeah.

Well, this is the biblical history of it.

Okay.

Now, I love, I think there was some tension between Elijah and um, and Jehu.

Okay.

You're gonna see that maybe in here, but it says, when Jehu went out to

his fellow officers, one of them asked him, is everything all right?

Why did this maniac come to you?

Because Elijah had just come to jail.

He says, you know, the man and the sort of things he says,

Jehu replied, that's not true.

Or JHU replied, excuse me.

And then they said, that's not true.

And they said, tell us Jehu wasn't eager to be the leader.

I think that's why he didn't go around bragging about it.

And then Jehu said, here's what he told me.

This is what the Lord says.

I will anoint you king over Israel.

They quickly took their cloaks and spread them under him on the bare steps.

Then they blew the trumpet and they shouted, Jehu is king.

See, in that video they said, Hey, when?

When people see him coming in, in that donkey and when they see people.

Putting those blankets down, they're gonna know Zacharia Nine.

Nine, they're gonna know two Kings, nine.

They're gonna know.

It's gonna be obvious.

And anyone who's a student of God's word, which many of them were

because it was a hardcore focus, they would know what's happening.

And so they knew, Hey, this is what they did for Jehu.

This is what we're gonna do for Jesus.

It was kind of a known thing.

That's what they had done for All King.

Does that make sense?

Yeah.

So that's what's happening.

That's what's happening there.

So spreading their cloaks in the road was a show of honor and royal recognition.

It was an act of submission and surrender given to a king when you put your cloak

down, which for many people is one of their most valuable things, you're

saying, here's my most valuable things.

I am under your authority.

You know when we say we're part of the kingdom and the Bible says

seek first the kingdom of God.

It isn't just make it a priority to come to church.

That's not what it is alone.

Now.

That's true.

You should do that.

But it's seeking first the reign and rule of Christ in

every single area of your life.

That's what the original Greek tells us.

That's what it's really saying.

And so here is this idea of laying down the cloak and a question, are you still

throwing down your cloak for Jesus?

Are you still doing it?

I mean, I know when you got baptized you were like, oh, it's amazing.

Right?

You were so fired up.

It was such an occasion.

It was like that video for, you're like, yeah, it's amazing.

When I baptized my mom, you know, the, the whole church was filled and it

was like, I just remember baptizing her and the whole church erupted.

And that's the most cheer I can ever remember for any baptism

ever that I've been a part of.

It was easy to be a disciple at that moment because things were going great.

I had just become a Christian a few months earlier and my mom was become a Christian.

Girlfriend became a Christian.

Uh, the guy who I invited to church when before I was a Christian, uh, he's the

one who said, Hey, you're a hypocrite.

You need to repent.

You taught me false doctrine.

You told me to pray Jesus in my heart, and now he's saying,

you taught me false doctrine.

He said, you need to come to my church and learn that you need to repent and be

baptized for the forgiveness of your sins so that you'll receive the Holy Spirit.

And I was like, wow, this guy is, he's bold.

This guy's got no shame in his game.

But I was far, I got, I got Peter.

That's who Peter, I got my mom, I got my ex-girlfriend.

Um, I got tons of friends who were coming to church with me.

Things were good.

Christian life was good.

It was easy to lay on my cloak at that time.

But are you still joyfully surrendering to Jesus?

Are you still as joyfully surrendering Jesus as the day when you threw down

your cloak and proclaimed Jesus'?

Lord, that's a good test for me.

There's been many times since 1989 when I have wanted to not throw it on my cluck.

When I wanted to, you know, pick up my cloak.

Have you taken up your cloak, your Lordship decision?

Have you taken it back?

I would still be sold out for God.

If my kids had become Christians, I would still be sold out for God

if everything had gone smoothly the way I thought they would.

I would still be so loud for God if God gave me everything I thought I

would have the day I was baptized.

I would still be so out for God if he had given me a spouse.

I would still be so out for God if he had given me the career I envisioned.

But sometimes when it doesn't happen, we pull back our hearts

the truth.

We've had a few hard years here.

I would say that I've experienced maybe some of the hardest part of it.

And I'm tested.

Is Jesus still Lord to your life?

Is he hosanna in the highest when things are great?

Is he still hosanna in the lowest when things are difficult?

Is he hosanna forever?

Yeah,

we gotta ask ourself these questions.

Or maybe you're visiting today for the first time, have you personally

thrown down your cloak in complete surrender to Jesus your Lord in baptism?

If you haven't done that, I wanna encourage you.

Ask the person who brought you, Hey, can you study the Bible with me?

I wanna throw it on my cloak.

I wanna surrender to Jesus.

I wanna be who Jesus has called me to be.

I wanna be a part of what is going on in the church.

I don't wanna be tight-fisted with my life.

I wanna be open-handed.

Mark 11, verse nine through 10.

Those who went ahead and those who followed, shouted, Hosanna.

Blessed is who comes in the name of the Lord.

Blessed is the coming kingdom of our Father, David.

Again, this is when you hear blessed is the coming kingdom of our father, David.

They're thinking a warrior like King, they're thinking

a different kind of kingdom.

Hosanna in the highest heaven.

You know, this was the fire that was going on the Sunday before Jesus.

Rose from the dead.

Amen.

But in between this stuff happened.

Okay?

In between this stuff happened.

And you know what?

In between our baptism and the day that we stand before God, things will happen.

That's the truth.

And how are you going to respond?

On Monday, Jesus cleanses the temple and he confronts the Pharisees.

Suddenly what?

Who.

This guy just yesterday, he was coming down.

It was amazing.

Now he's cleansing the temple and he is saying, get these things outta here.

And he was upset that people were stealing and cheating people coming

into Jerusalem for the Passover and their lambs weren't good enough.

So they would say, your lamb doesn't pass.

You have to buy one of mine.

At an exorbitant rate, your money needs to be exchanged and ripping

'em off in the exchange, Jesus' like, oh no, no, that ain't happening.

That is not happening.

That is not gonna fly.

Tuesday.

Jesus prophesize the destruction of the temple.

You know?

He's like, Hey, look, this temple, it's gonna be destroyed 70 years from now.

Watch it will happen.

And that's exactly what happened.

Still.

If you go to Jerusalem today, you, and he says there won't be one stone on top of

the other if you go to Jerusalem today.

The stones, they left him there on purpose to remind us.

It's pretty intense.

Wednesday, Jesus returns to Jerusalem to teach in the temple.

Thursday, Jesus in the Apostles, they eat their Passover meal.

He shares his final words.

Judas betrays him, and then he goes to Gethsemane to pray, which is a good thing

to do after someone betrays you Friday.

Jesus is arrested.

He's falsely condemned, he's abandoned, he's denied.

He's flogged and he's crucified.

And he's buried in a borrowed tomb.

Didn't even have his own tomb.

He laid down his life for us.

This is the Jesus that we serve.

Saturday, Jesus' body was resting in a heavily guarded, secured, and sealed tomb.

And I know for some of you're going, but there was a lot going

on in the background and spiritual.

I was like, yeah, I know there is, but I'm not gonna get into

that for the sake of time.

All right.

Sunday, of course, he has risen, just as he said.

And we'll leave that one to Greg.

Amen.

So Mark 11, verse nine.

Those who went ahead and those who followed, shouted, Hosanna.

And again, Hosanna means save now.

But someone in the proclaim, some in the crowd proclaimed.

Save now from Rome's oppression verses Save me now.

Save me from my sin.

Save me from my empty way of life.

Save me from the choices that I have made that I know didn't please you, God.

And some turned on him and they shifted from Hosanna to crucify him

in just a few short days because he wasn't the savior that they expected.

He didn't live up to their expectations.

Can I just.

Encourage the church.

Can we determine today that the OC Church will be a church who matures to sing

Hosanna in the highest, hosanna in the lowest hosanna to Jesus, our king forever.

In the good times, in the bad times, in the hard times, in the glorious times.

Can we be a church?

Who matures and understands that those things can be

difficult, considerate, pure joy.

When you face trials of many kinds, God is trying to make you mature and

complete so you won't lack anything.

But if we don't process pain properly, it can lead to bitterness.

It can lead to abandoning your faith.

When the church doesn't meet your expectations of what

you think should happen,

some just leave.

Now, obviously you're here.

Amen.

And I'm fired up about that.

But we are not here to be consumer Christians.

Come on.

We're here to serve the risen king.

Yes.

Amen.

Yes.

We're here to serve King Jesus, and we should be waving our, our palm leaves.

In fact, there'll be this, one of these rows is gonna have palm leaves

and, and when we sing, oh yeah.

There we go.

Awesome.

We should be waving these things.

Awesome.

And, and, and we should be so fired up and, and, and process pain better.

And we've not been good at teaching on that.

And I'll take responsibility for that with the people that God has called me to lead.

We've gotta get good at suffering.

We need a good theology of suffering so that we can process it, so

that we can sing Hosanna in the good times and the bad times.

And then mark 11, verse 11, and we'll close it out here.

Mark 11:11

This is our final.

Scripture in Mark, although there'll be a little bit more to it.

Jesus entered Jerusalem and he'd go, okay, this is awesome.

He just had this triumphant procession, and then it says he entered Jerusalem

and he went into the temple courts.

He looked around at everything, but since it was already late, he

went out to Bethany with the 12.

He's like, what?

That's, that's how it ends.

Like, what, what?

What was going on there?

There must be something else, and hopefully when you read your Bible and

go, that doesn't seem like the act, that doesn't seem like the logical next step.

There must be a reason why.

You see, Jesus had resolutely set up for Jerusalem and he actually arrived,

but his first order of business in Jerusalem was to go to the temple courts.

Jesus wanted to look around and the Greek word there is examine the temple.

To see how the sacrifices had been offered.

Why?

Because Jesus knew that this temple was gonna be destroyed at some

point in the future, and he, he would be the ultimate sacrifice.

And John too says that he is the temple.

And so the truth of the matter is, is Jesus was trying to figure out,

he's trying to process this like.

Wow.

What's going on with this temple?

Something's not right.

Sometimes we gotta look.

We are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes we gotta look at our own heart and go, what's, what's going on?

Am I sowing to please the Holy Spirit?

Are I sowing to please my sinful nature?

We gotta ask ourself these questions as Christians, if we're going to

continue to grow and mature and become all that God wants us to be.

In Orange County with 3.2

million people waiting for us to bring glory and honor

to God in everything we do.

And I hope you bring friends next week.

I hope this place is packed out.

I hope you have to get extra chairs.

I hope that this is just gonna be an amazing time.

But the reality is, is Jesus was really in an introspective mode right

here, trying to think what's going on.

You know that you've heard of Divine Reversal, right?

This is amazing thing that this is a divine reversal.

You know, I, if you guys remember when we did the special missions, the divine

reversal is that, you know, about 3000 died when they touched Mount Sinai.

They weren't supposed to.

And then in Acts two, about 3000 were saved.

And God's like, look, let me just switch it.

You think about, you think about Peter and he, he's sitting around

the campfire and he denies Jesus.

And then John 21, Jesus is sitting with him around the campfire

and he restores him again.

Divine reversal.

God will not let your sin define you.

Amen.

You are not defined by your sin.

You're defined by your willingness to repent.

And live out and be the, the, the Christian that God has called

you to be when you lay down your cloaks for Jesus of baptism.

Amen.

God has such an amazing plan for all of our lives, but what happened

here is in Ezekiel in 5 86 BC.

God's people were in Babylonian captivity.

They did not listen.

God had to do something radical, and so we see that the glory of God left the

temple, then went into the East Gate, then went down the Kidron Valley, and

then went to the Mount of Olives in the Def, in the Jesus triumphal entry.

We see that Jesus started at the Mount of Olives, went down in the Kidron

Valley, went through the Eastgate and into the temple to restore

peace, to restore the glory of God.

Is that awesome guys?

That's amazing.

It was a complete reversal.

As I was studying it, I go, this must be a divine reversal.

And I'm reading, I'm going, this has to be a divine reversal.

Started doing research.

Is this a divine reversal?

Like absolutely.

It's a divine reversal.

I was like, this is inspiring.

Again, God's people faced a pretty difficult time

in Babylon, but that would not be the defining moment for them.

The defining moment would be what Jesus would do, and I love that about Jesus.

I'm just gonna close it out with this passage.

You know, revelation is written to a bunch of persecuted people who they're

facing unbelievable persecution.

They had a death before denial mindset.

They would not stray in their faith.

Many did, but many stayed faithful and they said, we will stand up for God.

And so this vision comes.

To John and John shares this with the people to help them like, hang on,

don't let the difficulties of life, don't let the intense persecution

make you quit or make you stop.

And it says in Revelation seven, after this I looked and there before

me was a great multitude that no one could count from every nation,

tribe, people in language standing before the throne and before the lamb.

They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their

hands and they cried out in a loud voice, salvation belongs to our God

who sits on the throne in the lamb.

This was this vision.

And he guys, this was the vision he gave them, and this is what's

actually here in the church.

People from every nation worshiping God, holding palm branches in their hands.

Guys, we are part of an amazing church.

We go through hard times.

Yes, but read the book of Revelation.

All seven churches had a hard time.

Read all the epistles, all those church, you're like, whoa, what

is going on with that church?

We can't be surprised when hard times come, but we have

to ask our ourself in closing.

How can we bring God glory together as disciples in the OC Church, we

can proclaim together hosanna in the highest, Hosanna in our lowest

Hosanna to Jesus, our king forever.

Amen.