Nice, that's an appetizer for next week. Part of the musical presentation you're gonna hear. So, hear him be part of. So, please come back and join us next Sunday morning so we celebrate Easter. Well, are you like me and you just have not been hearing enough about the Royal Wedding? They're just not giving enough coverage on the news to us going on the life of Will's and Kate. I mean, they've already, maybe you don't know what I'm talking about because there's just been so little coverage of it. This is no pastoral irony. Yay, barely, sarcasm. You know, I confess, I don't get it because I have never lived under a monarchy. Some of you do, I know. I don't get it and forgive me when I'm watching news. I don't care what she's wearing, I'm sorry. I don't care. I don't care that he's William of Wales and she was a commoner. How nice, great, get on with it. Call me after the wedding. I know, that's just what kind of a reprobate I am. I don't understand all the fuss because I have never pledged my allegiance to an earthly king or queen. We're gonna be reading from Mark chapter 11 this morning versus one through 11. Mark's gospel was written to answer the question, who is Jesus? And Mark's answer is Jesus is the one who brings the kingdom of God. He brings the kingdom of God because he himself is the king. Jesus is the coming king of Israel. And our text this morning for Palm Sunday describes the unveiling of the Messiah as king. As I mentioned to the folks who are actually here early or on time, not that some of you well, you know who you are. Anyway, this is beginning while we Christians call Holy Week because this is the most momentous week in the history of the world. They events that took place in Jerusalem two thousand years ago this week changed the course of history. The world has never been the same. The world will never, can never be the same because what happened with Jesus of Nazareth as he came in Jerusalem two thousand years ago plus two thousand years ago this week. The events of this morning, our text this morning describes the unveil, for those who are new to us, that's Presbyterian applause just so you know, this is kind of how we do it. It describes the unveiling of Messiah as king sort of the coming out party for the Messiah. Many times before in the public ministry of Jesus and in the gospel, we find Jesus performing acts of power, miracles and authority and then turn to the people around saying, don't tell anybody, hush, keep this to yourself. It's not yet that I'm going to reveal myself. Now most of them didn't do it. They went out and talked, they went out and told them and it turned out that it was all right. But now Jesus is saying, okay, no more secrets, no more silence, now the veil's coming off, the rap's coming off. Now we're finding out he is in fact the coming king of Israel, Mark chapter 11, the game verse one, as they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethvege and Bethany at the mount of olives. Jesus sent two disciples saying to them, go to the village ahead of you and just as you enter it, you will find a cult tied there which no one has ever written, untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you why are you doing this, tell him the Lord needs it and we'll send it back here shortly. They went and found a cult outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, some people standing there asked, what are you doing untying the cult? They answered as Jesus told them to 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. Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. He looked around at everything but since it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the 12th. Let's pray together. Father, I ask now that you have inspired this record of the events of that week. You would inspire this preacher and annoy him now to preach your gospel to your people, to those who are not yet your people, for you are honored in your glory, for the building up of your body, the church, this church, and for the advance of your kingdom and the kingdoms of this world. Father, we know that the events of this week changed the course of history, it changed the world that these words would continue changing us. It's my prayer and Jesus name, Amen. I love Mark's gospel, Mark's gospel is the shortest of the gospels, it is the earliest written. It is quite likely that both Matthew and Luke had copies of Mark's gospel with them as they wrote theirs not that they copied him, but that his writing informed theirs. Mark's gospel, as I say, it's the shortest, but Father, Tersist, Mark doesn't spend much time with adjectives and modifiers, he just says, here's what happened. The word immediately occurs 39 times in Mark's short, little gospel. And what you read here, verses 1 through 11, what Mark gives such a reader's digest account before there was a reader's digest, but he gives such a reader's digest treatment to, there's a lot more going on behind the scenes. There's a lot more than folded in these verses, and I'll tell you more about that this morning. Mark portrays Jesus as Messiah, as the son of David, the rightful king of Israel, that's who he is, he's the king, now what kind of king is he? What kind of king is he? Well Mark says, first of all, he's a king worth celebrating. The significance of Jesus riding up the main street of Jerusalem, riding upon that cold. And the other gospel's tells us it was the cold of Adonky. Mark doesn't say that, but the gospel's tells us it was the fuller, the cold of Adonky. A humble beast, not a charging stallion befitting a war general, a donkey, a humble donkey. Why would he do that? Well, it's kind of lost on most of us, but what the people of Israel would have known, and again, it's sort of as I suggested the kids this morning, where we shout, we're number one, we high five, and we put the phone number one fingers up. That's what other cultures must think of us. People of Israel lay palms down for the feet of the one who they recognize as their king. It's informed by something that the prophet Zechariah wrote in Zechariah chapter nine, verses nine and 10 and then 16 and 70. And I'm sure you were doing your revolutions in Zechariah this morning, but let me just recap for you. Zechariah chapter nine, verse nine, rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, daughter of Jerusalem, see your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle, and riding on Adonky on a cult, the full of Adonky. I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the war horses from Jerusalem, and the battleboat will be broken. He will proclaim peace to the nations. His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth. The Lord their God will save his people on that day as a shepherd saves his flock. They will sparkle in his hand like jewels in a crown. How attractive and beautiful they will be. Grain will make the young men thrive and new wine, the young women. You don't have to be familiar with Timmy Royal, families to understand how good that must have sounded to the people of Jerusalem. How marvelous that must have sounded. And now here comes this man, this Jesus of Nazareth. This man, they hurt so much about sitting on a beast, a cult, a full of Adonky. They had prayed people of Jerusalem, and they prayed for the day. The God would make that happen with the rumors of what was going on that thought maybe, maybe this might be the time when a king like David, a son of David would come. The son is thrown in the freest people from their bondage. Now there's a whole other dimension of what's going on in Jerusalem that day. And Mark typically, Mark doesn't explain, he's sort of trusted that his readers would know, but here's what's going on, the backstory. John's Gospel goes into a lot of detail in this in John chapter 11 and 12. Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead in Bethany. And word of that had gotten around, he'd gotten everybody. Pharisees, the Sadduce, the scribes, they all said, this doesn't stop, they're all going to come out and follow him. So there's a lot of buzz surrounding what had happened. Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. And John tells us that that great multitude followed Jesus from Bethany into Jerusalem. And you know, they're all talking about what had just happened. I mean, wouldn't you? If you'd seen a dead man get out of his grave or if you knew Lazarus and knew he died and now he wasn't dead, or if you'd been in Bethany, you heard what was going on. You'd be talking about that too. So this great crowd follows Jesus from Bethany into Jerusalem, what's he going to do next? And now there's also a bigger crowd pouring into Jerusalem with the feast of the Passover. Jews from all over the ancient Near East, from all over the Mediterranean world, if they could get to Jerusalem for Passover, they came. So there's a big crowd coming from Bethany into Jerusalem after Jesus raised Lazarus. There's a bigger crowd coming from all over. Jews from all over. The Ancient Near East pouring into Jerusalem. Their starting to hear what's going on. For us here in Miami, think of if the crowd from Caiocho intersected with the crowd from the corporate run, the first Thursday in May, and converged on downtown Miami. They're all talking about one man. So you can see there's a buzz. There's a sort of a spontaneous combustion when they see Jesus riding into town and fulfillment of prophecy of Zechariah 9 and verse 9. So now, I want you just to, you got it in your bolter and hope you got a Bible with you. I want you just to think back or listen to Mark chapter 11. Listen to just verse 7. When they brought the cult to Jesus, and through their cloaks already sat on it, and now the buzz starts. What's he doing? Look at that. Everybody take, who's this guy? Remember, a lot of them hadn't seen him before. They heard about him, but there was no mass communication. They didn't know what he looked like. Here's this guy sitting on the back of a donkey. Verse 8, many people spread their cloaks on the road. Other spread branches they cut in the morning. The anticipation started to build here. People were starting to talk into motion to one another. Hey, come over and take a look at this. Other people, they're maybe ahead of him. They start moving out of this street. Like we get out of the way of an ambulance coming up behind us. I would part even the biggest crowded traffic jam in Miami. We get out of the way and let that ambulance come through. They're pulling off to the side. You see, let this man come through and they're putting them their cloaks and if they've gotten them to put down palm branches. Verse 9, those who went ahead and those who followed shout at Hosanna, that means Lord save. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father, David. Hosanna in the highest. Now folks, it's a full scale demonstration. It's a would-be coronation. Could this be the king we've been waiting for ever since, David, a thousand years have gone by and they're so sick of the Romans. They're so sick of being under the Roman boot. Maybe he's coming to liberate his people from their bondage. We talk about worship for a minute. I do a lot of thinking about worship. Doug can tell you. Doug can tell you sometimes he wishes I quit thinking so much about worship because I don't leave it alone. When I tweak things and the guys in the tower and I was Sunday morning, I was like, can we just change? I'm sorry, I'll be doing that. I'll die and then some. I just can't leave stuff alone. I do a lot of thinking about worship. One thing I know about worship is that it's supposed to be a celebration, folks. Worship is a celebration. True biblical worship is a celebration because the king's in the house. Now there are times when worship is supposed to be quiet and contemplative and meditative. You know, I'll give us time. We go before the Lord and the Corps prepare for us to get quiet and do business before the Lord. And as I've told you before, that's not a ritual to me. That's not just something punctuation to the service. That's for real. While you are hopefully confessing your sins I'm doing the same thing and praying my microphone doesn't pick it up. You laugh. You wouldn't. I'm confessing the places I've been disobedient in my heart, my mind, my behavior, my words. We get quiet, we get contemplative. This Thursday night is the quietest and most contemplative service we have all year because that's the night we reflect back on the Lord's supper the last night in Jerusalem before he was betrayed and arrested, before the passion, before the trials and the crucifixion. There are times when we need to be quiet and contemplative and meditative. Most of us Presbyterians don't have a hard time with that. We got that part down, but on the whole, worship ought to be a celebration, folks. The king's in the house with his people. You ought to leave this place feeling uplifted and encouraged and glad you've been here to be with God's people and in God's presence. You know, heaven, those of party when a lost sinner comes to saving faith in Christ, we should do. Let us celebrate when a lost sinner gets saved, gets redeemed. And if you know Christ, that was you and that was me. And we're not coming here without a remember what God's done for us. And worship ought to be a great big thank you note to God. Thank you for what you've done for us. We've got to sing that way and we've got to pray that way, we've got to fellowship that way, how to preach that way, we've got to give that way. Oh, I was okay up to them, wasn't I? I was okay up until I got to that point. Quick preaching down the meddling. Malcolm Mugger II was the darling of the, of the upper class society in England for many years in the last century, and editor of Punch magazine, celebrated intellectual and latinous life. He did the most scandalous thing of all. He batted his heart and his knee before Christ, as Lord became the Christian. Worse than that, it became an outspoken Christian. And the polite societies were just scandalized. Malcolm Mugger's had a very poignant way of putting things. He says that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over all the righteous who need no repentance is an anti-statistical proposition. It's great joy in heaven over a sinner who repents, so I'll be doing this place or what God's done for us. The kings in the house, we have different ways of celebrating, I know that. Most of us, we're not the people that go to parties and end up dancing on the table tops with the lampshades on our heads. Some of you are. God bless you, I hope you dance well. Most of us celebrate more quiet ways, and that's okay, I understand that, I get that. But if you're in worship service, you find yourself sitting next to somebody who celebrates a little more outwardly, wants to clap his hands or her hands, or raise hands in worship, oh, you know, it's okay, you can't get free to do that, that's okay, that's all right too, but let the person who wants it to be a little more expressive. Let him do that, let her do that, express it outwardly. Worships ought to be a celebration because we have a king who's worth celebrating. John Frame, who was one of the greatest reformed theologians alive today. John Frame, his book, Worship and Spirit and Tree, marvelous book, I recommend it to you, highly. Frame says, just imagine you are a servant in the king's palace, you have a very menial job, your job is to scrub the floors and to dust the place, and to clean up the dirt, you have a very menial task, but you don't mind, because you really love your king, and you're glad to be in his service. So you go about your task with joy, and with a real sense of fulfillment of what you're doing, and every now and then, maybe late at night, when the palace is quiet, maybe you're the only one to do the, every now and then, the king comes into the place. The king himself comes in and he sits down and he talks with you. One to one, eyeball to eyeball. The king sits and he talks with you as humble servant. That makes everything worthwhile. Just for those precious occasions, when you get to be with the king, John Frame says, that's worship. Go about your task with joy and commitment, fulfillment, knowing you serve the Lord most high, and every now and then, like, oh, every Sunday morning at 11, the king's in the house. Come on and be with him. Go eyeball to eyeball. Tell him thanks for all he's done for us. Tell him thanks for all that he's called you to do to be. It's not in Mark's Gospel, but Luke tells us this. Jesus made that triumphant entry in there. The Pharisees said in Hebrew, shut up. Ye barely. You take a fuss off or something like that. Be quiet. You be quiet and tell those people to be quiet. You know what Jesus said? He said, yeah, I could tell him to be quiet. And if I do, those rocks are gonna cry out. Wouldn't that have been cool to see? Wouldn't that have been neat to see? I'm gonna preach a sermon sometime on what those rocks might have said, the different kinds of rocks. Jesus said they could be quiet, but if they're quiet, the rocks will cry out. And by the way, boys, one day, everyone and everything, and all creation's gonna cry out that Jesus is Lord. Deal with it. Now, that's not in the text, but it was there. We preachers know these things. Everyone, everything is gonna confess Jesus is Lord, one day, willingly, or unwillingly, the word that is used there for cry out. It's used in the other gospels. The rest of the Bible for other things, but they always need to shout out, to scream even, to raise your voice. Now, that's the message upon Sunday. Sooner or later, everyone and everything will cry out that Jesus is Lord. Lift up your hands, be lifted up, let the redeemed declare the love. The love come down from heaven's gate to kiss the earth with hope and grace. See, and who is this King of glory? The Lord's strong and mighty. Who is this King of glory? The Lord's strong and mighty. We have a King who's worth honoring. He was worth celebrating. We have a King also worth honoring. You know, it almost sounds redundant to say a King worth honoring. Aren't all kings honored? We all kings get honored. There's difference between honoring someone and someone who's worthy of being honored. You know, there's a difference between honoring somebody because you're supposed to honor him and honoring somebody because he's worthy of honor. I was going to kick out of every year on August 13th and all the people in Havana have to line up and say how wonderful they think Fidelia is on his birthday. And the camera shows the crowd, all saying how much we love Fidelia, they're great Fidelia or July 26th, which is their national holiday, their day of rebellion, the day of rebellion began, they brought Castro to power. Had the people come out and stand in the square for hours while Castro gives another stem wind of a speech and how marvelous they all think it is. You know what they're all thinking? I'd rather we do anywhere doing anything, but I don't dare. Yeah, he gets honored because he's worthy of it, because he demands it. Well, here's a King who doesn't demand it, but he is worthy of it. He's a King who's worth honoring. The history of the nation of Israel was largely a story of kings and how well they rule the people. And sadly, all the kings of the northern kingdom of Israel, every single one of them was lousy. They were horrible kings. There wasn't a good one in the bunch. Most of the southern kings, the kings of the southern kingdom of Judah, most of them were bad. There were a few great exceptions. David has a kind of Josiah. There were a few goons, but overwhelming the kings of Israel and Judah were miserable abject failures before the Lord. They were unworthy of their thrones. Robert Carro and his biography of Lyndon Johnson's four-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson. The interviewer asked him one time, what happened with Johnson? We left the legislature and became the president. He lost his way to a large extent. And the interviewer said to Robert Carro, who probably knows more about Lyndon Johnson and the other human being. So this is a case of power corrupts. And Carro said, I don't think with Lyndon Johnson, this case of power corrupts. I think in his case, it was a matter of power reveals. Power just reveals what's in there already because now you can do whatever you want. That's what happened with Israel's kings. Power revealed who they were and what they were. And they were corrupt. They were unworthy of their thrones. But here was a king worthy of honor because he was humble. Zechariah 9.9 again. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, daughter of Jerusalem. See, your king comes to you. Righteous in having salvation. Gentle and riding on a donkey on a cold, the full of a donkey. I do not understand, ladies and gentlemen, I do not understand an arrogant Christian. If we really understand the gospel of God's grace, how a good and gracious and powerful and holy God sent his one and only son to leave behind the splendors of heaven to inhabit earth to become one of us God incarnate in the most humble of means, born into a common peasant Jewish family in a stable who grew up to be one of us who walked our streets and breathed our air and worked our jobs, died our death and bore our sins so that we might be redeemed. Please tell me, what is it we would have to be arrogant about? I do not understand an arrogant Christian. It makes me wonder why I am one so much of the time. What do we have to be arrogant about when we follow a humble king? That donkey that Jesus rode into Jerusalem today, do you think it ever once occurred to him that all those palm branches and cloaks and shouts of Hosanna were for him? You take the analogy. I mentioned last week one of my favorite poems of William Wordsworth. Let me give you my favorite poem with G.K. Chesterden. Just called the donkey. The tattered outlaw of the earth of ancient crooked will. Starve scores derived me. I am dumb. I keep my secret still. Fools right to have had my hour one far first hour and sweet. There was a shout about my ears and palms before my feet. Who is this king of glory? The Lord's strong and mighty. What is worship for, ladies and gentlemen? What is worship for? It's not about us. It's about Jesus. It should be about Jesus. Yeah, we get our needs met here and we work hard. We really do. We work hard to try to structure these worship services. So they are the most meaningful. We know how to make them for you. We try hard to make these worship services meaningful. God's people can enter into God's presence. A lot of times what we are trying to do is just kind of get ourselves out of the way. It's hard to do when you are standing or sitting up here looking at all of you to sort of go invisible and hope you just see Jesus. But that's what we are trying to do. worship is about Him. It's not about us. We are also trying to never forget who our real audience is. You are not my audience, folks. You are not an audience at all. We have one audience, an audience of one and an audience of three. The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. They are in attendance with us in this place and at this time they are our audience. You are my congregation and my fellow worshippers, my brothers and sisters in Christ. He is my audience. And I do what I do, the first and foremost, to try to bring honor and glory to Him, to try to please Him and hope that you will join me as we go before the Lord in an attitude of praise. The worship, because we have a king, who is worthy of worship, a king worth celebrating and a king worth honoring, we have a king worth following. I think we are just a minute about what Jesus sent those disciples to do. Send them into Jerusalem, you are going to find a cult tied up in a door, I want you to take it. And who I ask you about, you are just telling the Lord needs it, we will send it back in a while. Can you imagine? Well, sure, can Jesus tell them, here is what I want you to do, folks, the Lord just told me, I want to volunteer to get up and go to Daedland. You are going to find a BMW with the keys in it. I want you to get in it, I want you to drive it over, if anybody asks to say the Lord needs it, we will send it back. Any volunteers, but they did it, they did it because Jesus told me, he makes you do crazy things sometimes, folks. But he had prepared the way, what had he sent, word ahead of time, maybe. Send messages, say, look on such and such dates, such and such a time, a couple of my boys are going to come and say they can borrow your ride, maybe he had done that, maybe he just worked it in their hearts supernaturally. Jesus causes us to do outrageous things sometimes, that is what they did, they did it, and of course people asked him what they were doing, they said the Lord needs it, they sent it back here shortly, and the people, the owners of the cult agreed to do it, they must have been charismatic, no press but cheering on the world would do some stupid like that. They agreed and they let them take that donkey, that cold, the brunt of Jesus, Jesus told them to do it, and even though disciples, they did not always get it right, folks, but they did believe, it was feeble, it was frail, but they did believe in him, and they did believe that he knew what he was doing, but I also think they did it, not just for those reasons, but because they knew he would do anything for them too. They would do anything for him, because they knew he'd do anything for them, I've had both kinds of bosses, maybe you have to, this is the boss who demands everything from me, you know good and well, he wouldn't walk across the street to help you if you didn't have to, and there's a boss who would lay down his life for you, I know which one I'll work harder for, I suspect you do as well. Jesus was that kind of a boss, he was that kind of a lord and Messiah because he was that kind of a friend of them, you know, in John's Gospel, he says to them the last supper, which is just going to be four nights following this event, he said, I don't call you my servants anymore, and now I call you my friends, I call you my friends, and they followed him because he was worth following. Now, again, let me apply this to our worship, we come together in this place to honor and to praise a God who's all holy, he's all powerful, he's all righteous, he's all the omnis, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, he's all those things, he's good, he's just, and if you're only those things, he is eminently worth worshipping. And if you were only those things, I would not begin to know how to approach a God like that, what would I say, what would I do before God who's all those things, and I'm none of those things, but we have a God who's all those things, and he's become one of us. This is a God who knows what it's like to walk our streets and live our lives. This is a God who's approachable, the good news, that's what gospel means, you know, the good news is that we worship a God who's also a friend, he really honestly loves us, he enjoys us, I don't know why, I really think in some ways is why do we enjoy cats? I mean, they don't return our affection very much, but we like having, well some of us like having them around, don't take that analogy too far, God actually enjoys being with us, he loves it when we come to this place to be with him, why, I don't know, because he's chosen to be our friend, he's chosen to be a God who would do anything for us, and that's a God I can follow, that's a God who's worth following. He went all the way to Jerusalem, all the way to an old rugged cross, all the way to a tomb, all the way back again, and that's for us. I don't get the obsession with William and Kate, I really don't, they've never done a thing for me, and I don't think they ever will, I don't get the obsession with them and they're wedding to come, I mean, just, just, just, interesting, that's fine, you probably don't understand why I like baseball, that's okay, I don't get the obsession with William and Kate in their wedding, but I'm looking forward to another wedding, there's a wedding feast coming one day between the bride and his bridegroom, the wedding, the supper of the Lamb, I am going to be invited to that one, I'm really looking forward to that one, that's going to be marvelous, because we'll be there with our King, King is worth following, King is worth celebrating, a King is worth honoring, a King is worth living and dying for, here's what I'm going to do, so we're going to end the message this morning, you all know of my great appreciation for my, my great admiration for the great black preachers, I want to ask you to watch something on the screen here, that a man by the name of SM Lockridge closed a sermon one time, don't give us this guy, he's not with us anymore, he's in heaven, but I want you to hear how SM Lockridge ended a sermon called, that's my King, the Bible says my King is the King of the Jews, he's the King of Israel, he's the King of righteousness, he's the King of the ages, he's the King of Heavens, he's the King of glory, he's the King of King, and he's the Lord of Lord, that's my King, I want to do you know it, my King is a sovereign King, no means of measure can define his limitless look, he's enduringly strong, he's entirely sincere, he's eternally steadfast, he's immorally graceful, he's imperely powerful, he's impartially merciful, do you know him, he's the greatest phenomenon that has ever crossed the horizon of this world, he's God's son, he's a sinner's savior, he's a centipede of civilization, he's unparalleled, he's unpretated, he is the lawless idea in literature, he's the highest personality in philosophy, he's the fundamental doctrine of truth theology, he's the only one qualified to be an all-sufficient savior, I wonder if you know him today, he supplies strength for the weak, he's available for the tempted and the tried, he sympathizes and he saves, he's strengthens and sustains, he's God's and he guides, he heals the sick, he cleans the lepers, he forgives sinners, he discharges, that is, he delivers the captive, he defends the feeble, he blesses the young, he serves the unfortunate, he regards the age, he rewards the diligent and he beautifies the meager, I wonder if you know him, he's the key to knowledge, he's the well-sprained of wisdom, he's the doughway of deliverance, he's the pathway of peace, he's the roadway of righteousness, he's the highway of holiness, he's the gateway of glory, do you know him? Well, his life is matchless, his goodness is limitless, his mercy is everlasting, his love never changes, his word is enough, his grace is sufficient, his reign is righteous, and his yoke is easy, and his burden is lighter, I wish I could describe him to you, yes, he's indescribable, he's incomprehensible, he's invincible, he's irresistible, you can't get him out of your mind, you can't, you can't get him off of your hand, you can't outlive him, and you can't live without him, well, the Pharisees couldn't stand him, but they found out they couldn't stop him, Hannah couldn't find any fault in him, Herap couldn't kill him, they couldn't handle him, and the grave couldn't hold him, yes, that's my king,
Is that powerful? Amen, let's pray together, Father, we're so grateful today that we serve a king, follow one who's worthy, that has not only changed the course of history, not only changed the world, it's changed our lives, as we begin what we call our holy week, we look to you our holy God, and we thank you for what you've done for us. A prayer this morning is that you would continue to do that work in each and every one of our lives, that you need to do, to mold us and to shape us, and to conform us more and more into the image, we're son and our king, we're Jesus, I pray in his name, Amen. Thanks again for being here with us today, we hope you have a great rest of your Saviith Day, Lord's Day, and we receive now the Lord's benediction, and go now in the love of God the Father, the grace and mercy of God the Son, the fellowship and companionship of God the Holy Spirit, and live the life, Amen.