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who your favored green bay packers
all right
as somebody might look back and say will bart starr somebody might say brett
forever someone might say a current player about what eva my favorite
all time
green bay packers
and that is my friend coral swampy
quarrel is with us this six seven gentle giant
has been mind friend
for many years
water supporter appr
a man who loves me as a brother
i wanna tell u
what it surely ended challenge it was to baptize him when i was a pastor in rhode
island
here i a m five children just
and he's six seven
and man
we got him in the water we got him up
it was also
but i just got i think that my friend is here
arnie's here to share it just a little bit of his story
and then after he shares his story
got inspired him on super bowl nine to write something
and we to connect habit read to you
he's gonna read it
and then you can pick up copies in the back among coral come on up to this mike
here
and would you just share with us
and thank you let's give carl
thank you it's not offensive lineman we usually don't get claps we didn't do
that so hectic
it's a it's a pleasure to be here how to share what god has done in my life and i
wanted to give a little testimony and then the uh... the things that i wrote
uh... actually my testimony starts
uh... back at the end of world war two
and it starts with a million who was that uh... japanese midshipmen
at the naval academy
at the end of the war
he was seeking something to keep came accross an army chaplain
and the other thing chaplain seven let's open the bible
and if you find christ you'll find what you need
but it's not you can keep searching
they open the bible
he came to know jesus as a savior
the went to moody bible institute
went to gordon theological seminary
went to south america as a week with bible translator
his wife talk to go he had to come back to the united states
and he had
skills and speaking spanish so he became a spanish teacher at my high school
shortly at after my dad had passed away i think my first your spanish
in high school by a japanese spanish teacher ok which is a very unusual
occurrence
he said that there's an army navy football rally happening in hartford
that you should go to
might learn something
and went in the army navy football rally
which was put on by word of life
i heard from a midshipman the constant message about how we sought to fill the
void in his life
by seeking it with all of a strengthened my and put his own abilities and he
couldn't
the actually accepted christ is savior
i didn't accept mcrae says my savior that night
after years of trying to fill the void in my life because of my father
through football and all kinds of other things
i finally came to a point where i was at that point of this midshipmen the naval
academy
and i cried out to christ as my savior
and think
thank jesus that he's saving that time
and so grateful because that way it was filled with the piece that i've never
felt in my life before
moment
so that's my little testimonial
bonin in japan who was paid for the guy who came and told me the story
to go down mosquito with jesus didn't other people's lives
the other part of the story happens like this
i was watching the superbowl lake a lot of us were
enda
q commercial ***
by surprise it was a paul harvey
puppies where he read arm god created herb made of former
and i didn't think anything of it at the time i thought i was very powerful and
was rated the number one commercial for the super bowl
and i went to bed and at about twelve thirty in the morning i woke up
and i kept on thinking you've got
created a farmer made a former so that he could feed us were only to be said
for a couple of days
and want to give you a turn away
so you can be
said further rest of the time
and things came into my mind and i kept on thinking while disco tibetan wake up
in the morning to start writing
the more laid down the more thoughts came into my head
and i couldn't sleep so i went down and got a
pen and paper into started writing
thing after fan after thing until i finally came to the end it was one two
two on the morning i was writing
and you think that that would be bleary eyed and you wouldn't know what the heck
of it but it was when it was being written but at the end of the day
this is kind of what wrote with the stratton
made you want to
read it to you
idea apologize
beforehand because i'm not a good reader
of words even if i wrote a myself
and
but i feel like i was in writing this because my grade in college and date
which was a cease all not a very good
writer
houseplants now where my classes because i'm getting a little bit more mature and
age
jesus look
at the people in the earth
and was moved with compassion and said
i need a christian
i need someone to seek
c simply with all their part
soul mind and strength
and will not that love their neighbors as themselves idea christian
they need someone who can either so it really
pick up their cross and follow me
i need a christian
maybe someone who will see that the fields are white on to harvest
and pray for the workers to go into those fields
i need a christian
they need someone walk cedric pure joy when they face trials of many kinds
because of me and nick and my name
i need a christian
i need someone who know that all power's been given to me in heaven and under
and i will be with you always even tho you go to the ends of the earth
and christian
i need someone to feed the poor take care of the widows and orphans
and visit those in prison
knowing whatever they have done to the least of these
that they've done to me
i need a christian
i decided to know that no temptation of sees them except was coming to me in
and i will not let them be tempted beyond what the conveyor
and that with the temptation i will make a mockery of this case
i need a christian
i need someone to know that is better to follow ground them to follow me a
anti-christian
i need someone to sell my seat
my word generously in that spirit
someone who will take my precious message
which is better that's over or feingold to the ends of the earth
i need a christian
i need someone who is willing to give up family airfields for my namesake and the
gospel knowing that they will not fail to reach steve a hundred full
family and fields and with that paternal life minded christian
and we can be someone who will not shrink back when facing persecution
rejoice and be worthy of being beaten for the name of christ
i need a christian
i need someone who will forget what is in the past and strain on towards our
goal for which i happen here
i need a christian
i need someone who will pray to me and earnestly seek my world for their life
and will spend their time meditating on my word day and night anti-christian
i need someone who will not just be a here of my word put it to work
who hide my word in their hearts so that they might not sin against me
one that will make my work our way up into their feet analyte onto their path
i need a christian
i need someone to tell everyone i did not come into the world to condemn them
but that threw me they may be saying
i need a christian
i need someone to tell everyone that i loved him so much i was willing to die
in a cross burning in my body
there send so that they might try to send and the correction since by my
wounds they've been healed
i need a christian
annie six someone who will do everything as i'm tony whether at work wordplay
whether a church or not
doing all for the glory of god
they need a christian
and it's someone to make disciples teaching them all they have come in at
them
encouraging them
praying for them loving them sharpening them all the days of their lives
i need a christian
i need someone who will know that once they have received
the
that they have gotten the holy spirit as a deposit guaranteeing the future with
me and help them
were and preparing a place for them
somewhere
where they will live forever more
a place where there is no more tears are suffering or sorrow
and it will be live with my radiance
and you christian
and so what was written
thanks carl
word uh...
you're looking for someone to be your police and to have your heart and to
live your way
you're looking for someone like world uh...
filled with the spirit and the word of god
find us
let us be
when you're looking for a christian
to show your grace and love him to speak of jesus find us
in jesus name
amen
carl's had the opportunity to actually share that from vermont to virginia
god's just opening doors all over the place and i believe it's so important
that made copies for you and on the table in the back are you could find a
copy
of his writing
how many of you know if you're thirty to fifty
have been to a high school reunion reassure him
some of you
have been to a high school reunion
i have never gone to mine back in texas as a matter of fact those kinda
terrified me and the reason it terrifies me
is that people remember the way i looked
when i was in high school had never thought about that you know that if you
went to a high school reunion
there are people you have not seen
sense high school and so you have their picture in your mind
you know what they look like
and then when you see them yuko liao
you changed a few dress sizes since i saw you last
or or my knesset didn't know they made a belt that big
yet out or are you thinking oh my goodness you used to have a full head of
hair what happened to you uh... updike all these different things go through
our minds when we think
of high school reunions
a high school reunion
is very dramatic because of the picture we have in our mind
and uh... picture of reality
that is in front of us
and help on sundays about that same kind of thing
not so much a high school reunion
where someone has a picture in their mind because of something they had their
past
but all of us have pictures in our mind about what it pain would look like
today as
head in the worship team just so wonderfully
let us in worship digi catch some of the songs
where we could draft jesus it's king did you get that
because he has a king
but what palm sunday is all about is that he's the king of a different flavor
a king that looks different than
what often is in
people's minds
no palm sunday when we look at jesus
it's about weeping
and winning
jesus did both
as he rode a donkey down the mount of olives
an inner d into
jerusalem that day
he wept over jerusalem
and yet he announced his victory
he came and weeping
everyone else had their hands up
them were rejoicing
he wept because the people
did not recognize
that day
that god was coming to them
i'd like to take your bulletin insead the story of palm sunday
i would like to read it
you could follow along
and then i just want to simply address a couple of things
out of the story the palm sunday
loop nineteen versus twenty eight two forty four
records
in loops words
this story
of palm sunday
here's regards after jesus had said this
by the way he had just talked about being a king
in the versace before
and after jesus had said this
he went on ahead of him going up to jerusalem
and i have seen approach to bethpage
and bethany at the hill where the mount of olives
he said to have his disciples saying to them
gold to the village a bit of you
an interest
and you will find a cold there
which no one has ever written
untie your bring it here
if anyone ask you
why are you implying it say
the ward needs it
knows who were sent to head
at found it just as he told them
as they were entitled the cold its owner asked them why are you enjoying the
called
may replied
bull ward
needs it
they brought it to jesus through their close on the cold
and put jesus on it
as he went along people spread their quotes on the road
when he came near the place
where the road goes down the mount of olives
the whole crowd of disciples began
joyfully to praise god in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen
blessed his feet
double as it is that came who comes in the name of the lord
peace in heaven
and glory
in the highest
some of the pharisees in the crowd
said to jesus
teacher
view your disciples
i tell you
jesus replied
if they keep quiet
the stones
book right now
as he approached drew salam and saw this city he wept over it
and here's what he said
if u
even u had only known on this day what would bring you peace
but now it is hidden from your eyes
the day's will come up on you
when you're enemies will build an embankment against you
and in circle you and him you win on every side
they will dash you to the ground
you and the children within your walls
they will not leave one stone on another
because
you did not recognize but
time or the day
of god's coming to you
or jesus
help us recognize today
for what it is
and not missile
but to embrace you
and respond
to your lavish grace
in jesus name
why did jesus weep
you know he's coming down the the mount of olives
palm sunday as a is always recorded as a very joyful day
but for jesus is coming down the mount of olives
for those of you have been to israel in and and my two trips there you're
walking down or is he jesus was doing writing down
you calm down the mountain about olives in there comes a point
where they're it actually the road takes a crook a return to the right
but error actually could be to the left i don't even remember now
but it actually turns and then there's truthful
and when that vast beautiful city appeared before jesus he wear
anne wept because he said
you didn't get it
only known
when god was visiting you
his seeds
would be with you
shows the heart
but jesus
and the question i guess i've gotta ask today on this palm sunday
is why didn't people see it
why didn't people see jesus really has
why didn't they
recognize today have got to come in
well i think if we think about this very
uh... very long we can find that there probably three things
the jesus always did that kind of through people off a bit
the first one is this
edges it jesus
does and he did
the unaccustomed
uh... to maybe not a word we use a lot on a custom
but i want to use it as a b think about jesus coming down into jerusalem
and why people didn't recognize god is visiting us
because jesus did
the annette custom let me tell you what i mean by that
a custom
in jesus day
was centered around the temple bejesus only went there on prescribed fees
and at the passover
and the temple by the way it wasn't his base of operation
as a matter of fact he went up into gallantly where the gentiles lived
he did not always follow
what people thought to be custom
what was customary
you know custom gave special honor to the pharisees in the sand jerseys
if if you ask any person in the first century who the guys in the white house
where
they are all would have said the first season this yr disease
we look at them now reading back through the filter
but the new testament go play those guys missed it
but if you as the contemporary they would have said those are the guys who
have it all together
so custom would have been that they would give honor to the pharisees but
jesus did not
as a matter of fact heat butted heads with these two groups more than anyone
else heeded the unaccustomed
jesus we must see wasn't against custom
he's not against tradition
he's not against which wall
before use against swim ritual custom or tradition replaced the inner working of
god
foreign outer religious
jesus does the on a custom in as a result people been recognize who it was
but as jesus lived his life
he also did catch this
the unexpected
jesus did the unexpectedly
are unexpected
and not only was that the custom thing
but unexpectedly when he was a boy he left his family's traveling companions
to be in the temple doing his father's business
unexpectedly
expected him to be with the traveling through
unexpectedly he chose twelve million who had no pedigree or position in society
to change the world heeded the unexpected
nobody guy
you see jesus not only was one who did the unaccustomed
and the unexpected but let me give you one other thing why i believe the dayton
really catch it that god was visiting them that day
and that is jesus does
the unimaginable
he goes beyond custom men
what we have in our minds is expectation
and god does the unimaginable beyond reason he heals the sick and touches
lepers when they were unclean
uh... he's born of the burgeoning follows the fathers will even to his
death
he dies not for the right just dissenters any rises from the dead let
me just say
jesus does
the unimaginable
and because jesus was so unique in all of this
people misunderstood
but i think here is the main point god wants us to get
here on palm sunday
that though many may misunderstand jesus
he wants us to see him clearly
as our gracious scheme
and live in light but this lavish grace
i believe that many people misunderstand jesus and they didn't his day in the do
today
but what he wants us to do
is to see him clearly for the king many years
and live in light of his great lavish grace
now in order for us to try to see that
i wanna focus on obverse that is not in your bulletin and that the supreme pull
it up here on the screen
here's a prophecy that jesus fulfilled
it's actor rya
nine nine
if you're not familiar with your bible and it's kind of hard to find seca right
as one of those
uh... shorter books
at the end of the old testament
zachariah was a profit here's what he said
and this was the prophecy the main prophecy and not the only one
but the main one bit jesus fulfilled when he came into jerusalem on a donkey
here's what's s rejoiced greatly old daughter resign and
shall allowed or daughter of jerusalem behold your chain is coming to you right
shows
and having salvation
is he
humble and mounted on the donkey on a cold the full of the donkey
when tell you there were four reasons jesus rode a donkey
i don't know if you've ever looked at donkeys in the bible
you know what the very first story of anyone writing a donkey list
know what it is
just watched it last night
on my recording of the bible ami of using them history channel that's pretty
cool
but i watched it
the first time that anyone ever writing a viable arrived talking in the bible
well whatever where writing a bible on a donkey or read her writing
persevere and scripture though it first place where somebody write the dark is
abraham taking a stand up to sacrifice
in here we have jesus
going into jerusalem on a donkey to be secretary
kinda fascinating
the jesus
rode a donkey
you know a lot of people like to say that a donkey is just this
poor humble stupid animal
believe me
that's our culture not jesus
actually a donkey was a noble
it was a noble right
when jesus got on a donkey he was insane i refuse the horse
because and now like com on a donkey you know why
when every keen internet city or entered a region and he was entering it in
he rode a donkey
when the internet to take it up homework
he rode a horse
jesus
masterfully is selecting his mouth
and he says i want a bride a donkey because i want everyone to know high m
came
becoming peace
you know coral one of the things that stood out in corals were dirty that he
read to assisted if it jesus
i'm looking for a christian who understands this jesus didn't come into
the world to condemn it but to save it
you see that's why jesus is coming in jerusalem
on this amount of a donkey
he is clearly
calling himself attacking
but he is saying
i am a keen
please
now let's get back to work
high school reunion
right you don't look that way i
thought you would like
jesus didn't look the way many people wanted him to look
because they didn't want him on a horse
they wanted him to overthrow rome they wanted to come and like a marching king
who would come in and said everything right
but jesus said
i tell you what
i can't set things right on birth into a set them right in happen
until i'm marching on all spring peace that in jesus through his death and
resurrection
we now have peace with god
and because we have peace with god we get a peace within
and because we had peace with god we have a piece but then we can and peace
with one another
you see jesus is saying
this is an about wrong
you know jesus with the longview could understand
the roman
empire
won't
last
matter fact he looks at us
and he says the american empire won't last
but i want to tell you something that would never and
you put your trust in me
and my peaks
world never
go out of style
opus jesus doing writing ability
he was actually calling himself the king
tried in walk-in
hero dan
but he was a king of peace
now i gotta tell you
i love what one person that i've read to her
barkley i just said he had a very great fought about jesus coming in
presenting himself is this kind of king listen to this
uh... he he says
the jesus writing this docking on palm sunday and coming into the into
jerusalem was a glorious
of defiance
and one of support likud's kary check
gotta catch this
hit when jesus came and it was an active div
clients
in an act of courage
you know why
because before jesus was coming and they already
had a balcony on his head
he was i already wanted to kill him
is a matter of fact if you were to ask
the religious leaders of jesus they jesus was an alcohol
marking
hearing comes riding in
he's writing and as an outlaw and saying listen to me ault bill limelight is on
me
uh... m taking center stage
odd
and the key
and bet deaf
finance
against the public opinion inside the walls outside they were praising and
inside the walls who does he think he has even the pharisees said tell them
this topic who do you think you are
i love what barclay says he says it's impossible to exaggerate
bashir
kary should jesus
sometimes we think he's writing and in he's this mild me jesus
man this is courageous this is bravery at its finest
i'm telling
i'm
but i'm a can give peace
says jesus rode on this dog he has definitely saying that he's a kink
but this passage says here
it says your king is coming to you
notice harry's first described
says that he's right chiz and i don't just have to talk about that just for a
minute
he declared himself his team
and his first thing they need displayed was his righteousness
would be only issue for few short days before the crowds in the city would yell
crucify him
only criminals were crucified
even the bible declares cursed is everyone who's hung on a tree
need i remind you today that c_n_n_ the kurtz entered into the world because of
the tree
dhoni opt-out regard said
and it was from a tree
that's and entered the world
and it is going to be through a tree
that's in would be removed
overcome
well what we're getting at here
is that this is keen coming in on a donkey who is going to die a horrible
death
is
right just
he's not dying for his own stands he's dying for you or kiss
and that's why we emphasize the display
of righteousness
first peter three eighths's
christ suffered for our first sense
dog right chest
four the underwriters to bring you to god
he was put to death in the body but was made alive
in this spirit second corinthians five twenty one
god made him who knew no sin to be sin for russ
that we might become the righteousness of god
here is the righteous king and the right just king ernie's only merit
says anyone who believes in me i declare righteous
and i forget there's
but it's got to tell you
that jesus
wasn't understood his right to smile a lot of people thought it was a criminal
and he did the
unaccustomed
his righteousness was not the righteousness people were accustomed to
it was custom that you wash your hands before you you
his disciples took the plea
with the unwashed hands in ate it
annie always ran into problems with customs
it'd be unaccustomed
this righteous king
he did the unexpected
he came out and said
the righteousness i'm looking for is not an our one where you look good on sunday
i'm looking for something to transform shoe from the
inside
and like jesus typical pattern he did the unimaginable
what was the crowning seemed a scripture says
ke was declared branches
it was his resurrection
he had died two criminal but god raised him from that ted and he was declared
righteous
i can't tell you enough to jesus writing a donkey means more
than just sitting on a little
means he's kenya means he's righteous
but it also says that he's bringing salvation or ease bringing
in his name
somebody uh... palm branches they're made into the form of a cross and
and the children's ministry are doing some different things with palm branches
in
and and everything today in the palm ranch was a symbol of triumphant victory
in jesus day
so anytime you think of palm sunday
it's triumph in victory
the romans were awarded champions of the games and celebrated military successes
with palm branches
early christians used the palm branch
to symbolize the victory of the faithful over the enemies of their soul
and palm sunday we raise
uh... palm branches and children march in celebrate y
because
uh... jesus
is
the victor
and so i want you to know that when jesus rode this donkey
he wrote it because he's a king who is right just
and he has salvation or victory
in his hand
but i want to get to the last one
because writing a donkey says right here
he said he would be humble
unexpected jesus was always humble
it was expected to teens to awarded over others but not jesus
the custom was to lord it over his own unexpected that jesus would be a servant
king it was unimaginable
that he would actually serve us to the point of death
the bible says the jesus writing on a dog ki
even though it means he's a cane coming in peace
means he's also wicking
who is humble in gentle
mecu eleven twenty eight thirty a brought us comfort
throughout our lives and no one has mine
come to me all you were we reimburse and
and i will give you rest the might yoke upon you
and learn from a friend chan pool
and harmful in heart and hugh
will find rest for your souls
for my yolk is easy in my burden is light
you know the people of jesus day didn't recognize the day of god's coming
because they didn't know god was so approachable
you know that one song we sing at our worship today i had my hands
outstretched
because it meant something to me and here's what it was
tangy me
and should find me
it gave our word about self doubt do you ever had that annoyed
take me as you find me
as ted parade through a whole whitney of things greed and uh... and their i
couldn't believe the whales that god gave them because i hear
re-examine example of all of them
thank you karen
uh... i walked weekly
no i don't hate me as you find me
god is approachable
he's humble in gentle in spirit
and that's what you find rest for your souls so can i just say this
people mister recognizing the day of god's coming
because they expected jesus to be
like in an all's high school reunion
he's got to look different than that
but this is the way years
he's a king
righteous
victorious
and approachable
so what we do
so what
everyone who receives the blessing of the king must surrender so we sing a
song today about surrender
i believe palm sunday is the day in which god is telling us
and everyone of us would you surrender your life once more to me
maybe we've gotten into some kind of look far jake christianity and god's
just saying i'm not asking you to correct your life i'm not asking you to
work
for i'm not asking you to read jeanne yourself all i'm asking is would you
hand it to me
you know i mean it uh...
risk something terrible friend of mine
drawn
and i had a dream you my pressure just a bit of piece of it
in a dream that sean shared with me
he said he was walking over a cn do
and he could see a group of people coming in heat glenn was clearly
identified is jesus
and they sat down a blanket and they were fellowship in knows to dream going
on in the middle of the night
and shawn's had some your some months ago
it came time grigio berber sean sent i just wish i could talk to jesus
in industry missus movie is playing in his mind
he said if i got their and i was able to sit on the corner of the blanket
jesus
i said to sean
join you have some gifts for me
but all show on had worsens
kinda had him behind his back
jesus said
sean what gifts do you have for me
just kinda
brought him around like this
what i have
and she's this
with craves
beaming from this place
and said
these are mine
ini put him behind his back
it seemed like that in that moment
sean was in a broken state of grace
but the garden who could judge him in the god who can beat him down
blog who had everyone to condemn m
actually received them
the way
he was
and that this is jesus
sold
far from custom fit says
pray enuff
read your bible enough
far
that of from
uh... from what we would expect
doing the unexpected loosen even doing the unimaginable
he said these gifts if your sins
or important
and dear to me
and you cannot have come back
i hope i haven't
misquoted chillin
but in his dream
as if it was real
sitting with jesus began to weep
anywho comp weeping
but he wasn't weeping because look at the rotten assume you know
he was weakening
because jesus is approachable
and he says
come to me
palm sunday about
dramatic king
who in his own merit
his own
righteousness has secured or selfish in
the same king
righteous holy
is approachable
and all he wants us to do
it's eight come to me with your stuff
so that i might send you out to a world that's broken
and you'll have something to offer
because you offer me
medically deal
you know something
what we call here living hope
exchange life
my life for him
is like for me
let's just pause a moment to pray
king jesus
your soul
unlike
any keen
we've ever known
uh... takings of the url toward it over everybody
they're the ones riding around in limousines and
and living in
castles and palaces and
and you lived like a whole mosbacher
you you are not
you take customs in chatter them
you
fart exceeded our expectations
and do the unimaginable
no only thing we want to do today has worship you
if if we could have
in this moment
our life's wish
it would be to beef
because in view
is the release
occurring zaidi
became in you
is the relief appreciate
interview
is the release
of our purpose lists
lists are cheap living
in new ism
bunton grades
you mean you know
it's our hope
i'd just want to thank you jesus that
uh... i_d_
like sherry
as she spoke
in our body ministry mike earlier
we've had a rough week
and i haven't responded well
there been times have been
down in murmuring
there been parents might
has been small
and my
patients short
prestigious simply come to you again because you're so approachable
and you know say hey passers don't
with me
what's wrong with
yeah i think you do have said to me dot what's wrong with your clip
uh... but you're saying
come to me to get it like
lord i i have tried in my own strain to bring
in my own strength try to pull myself up by my boot straps and beat them and you
want me to be and you're just simply saying
sit on the blanket with me for a while
jesus you are so unimaginable
no wonder people didn't get it
and yet even in that day on palm sunday you were saying if u homely new what
would bring to you
heats
father of the people that we work with
uh... as we leave here and on monday
if if they could just have announce a piece
they would bring them hope in a calmness in a steadiness into
in the bar rides in the storms of life
some of them would say if i could just get it and they don't recognize that
he's found in jesus
lord we recognize that we were blind but now we see and there are people around
us who are blind but do you do meet this city
so what do you pull out your spirit
so that we my share jesus
and that you see
and belief
where jesus i just think you know that in this room on this palm sunday
there are some of us who say you know what i really never have
just spice
received cheese
and i just pray that today's the day that day of
reckoning tdap saying com visited
enacted
lecture people
where jesus we thank you for coming on a donkey
keen
of kings
and thank you for the return bit will calm water mighty horse
this time coming to conquer advocate called for the world
and establish
your grace and peace over the years
this is our hope
and you were coming
and now great king
until that time of coming
grant us your peace in your power
that we would live
in jesus name
would you please stand