Behold Your King Matthew 21:5

Well, good morning and welcome to faith Bible Church is some new faces out there and we'd like to welcome you especially and we pray that you would sense the love of the body here and that's our our desire is to love each other and to serve the Lord that way and Without the love of Christ.

We're really an empty gong empty empty sound there's nothing coming from us, but empty words, but With Christ we can do so much more. So welcome this morning. I want to share. For most you're familiar aware that next week today.

Obviously is Palm Sunday next week resurrection Sunday. Is we've invited? Iljin Cho and his wife Lauren out as pastoral candidate. He will be preaching. I'm in the main service next week. We're also at 930 in the morning inviting you all to come out.

And to have a little more one-on-one and some personal time with them. He's also before the service going to share some they're gonna share some of their testimony just a few little facts about themselves.

So that should be good. So really make a point of coming out to that. So that's 930 next Sunday, and there'll be refreshments in the fellowship hall. So Nothing should keep you away at least obvious things.

Anyway, so look forward to seeing you all there and And then following resurrection Sunday on the 11th, there'll be a business meeting that's when we're going to have the opportunity to listen to each other and to talk about Iljin's visit and What that would mean for our church and if there's a and we'll have a vote if there's a vote to call or not to call Whatever the Lord wills and so that's the week following on the 11th after the morning service, so I Wanted to read as we prepare our hearts for worship this morning.

This is a glorious day and Anticipation of next week resurrection Sunday, and we're looking forward to pastor John's message as he talks about the triumphal entry. Psalm 145 says I will extol you my God My God Oh King and I will bless you your name forever and ever.

Every day I will bless you and I will praise your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and his greatness is unsearchable and then jumping towards the end of that Chapter 145 the Lord is righteous in all his ways.

Gracious is in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call upon him to all who call upon him and truth He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He will also he also will hear their cry and save them.

The Lord preserves all who love him, but all the wicked will be he will destroy. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord and all flesh shall bless his holy name Forever and ever and I would add amen to that.

So if you would if you would Join with me in opening our service and prayer this morning Lord God, we thank you that we've been able to gather this morning father may we praise you father because you are worthy of our praise and just anticipating the death and resurrection the celebration of that father is just Spectacular.

It's overwhelming Lord to see the grace at work and how you have planned all of this and Lord You have given us hope we have hope like no other on this earth father, but for the believer We have eternal hope in you father.

So we thank you for that. May we honor you this morning with all that we do as we lift our voices as we hear the truth of your spoken from the gospel from your word father, we just give you praise and Ask that you would go before us Lord and may we be found acceptable in your sight Lord and and Lord through it all May we have the mind of Christ that we might see our lives and the matters of this world that they can be so Discouraging at times father, but when we look through your lens, we know that you are victorious.

You are Lord over all and we have nothing to fear father. So we thank you that we can celebrate you this morning and we give you praise in all things in Christ's name. Amen.

Good morning. And to God be all the praise and we should praise him all the time and let's stand and sing. I Sing the mighty power of God.

You please be seated and the scripture reading. Jim Pershinger. Good morning.

I'll just ready for this morning is Matthew chapter 21 verses 1 through 11. Matthew 21 verses 1 through 11. And when they drew die unto Jerusalem, I will come to Bethpage Unto the Mount of Olives. Then said Jesus to disciples Saying that to them going to a village over against you and straightway You shall find an ass tied and a coat with her News them and bring them unto me and if any man shall say on to Onto you you shall say the Lord hath need of him them and straightway.

He would send them. And all this was done that might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet saying Tell you the daughter of Zion behold, I can come with unto thee meek and say it upon an ass. A coat fell for an ass and.

The disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them and brought the ass that he called and put on Put on them their clothes and they said him They're on and very great water to spread their garments in a way.

Others could cut down branches for the trees and Stalled them in a way and the multitude that went Before and that followed cried saying who was then to the son of David. That's it He is he committed a name of the Lord Who's done in the highest.

And when he was coming to Jerusalem All the city was moved saying who is this and the multitude said this is Jesus the prophet of died Nazareth of Galilee. May the Lord I speak to real his word.

Let's stand and sing praises to our Savior.

Whom we glorify. Thank you so much David and thank you.

Jim for reading the God's Word. Well, good morning. Great to see everybody. I encourage you to open your Bibles to first Timothy. First Timothy chapter 6. If you want to warm your fingers up, we're gonna go to a couple of passages this morning.

So I like to go like this kind of warm my fingers up and get them ready. I Think you'll be able to keep up with me. Yeah, you're warm. Yeah, you've been playing the violin. I'm warm. It's my second sermon, so I'm ready to go.

Takes me one sermon to warm up so first Timothy chapter 6 and then we're gonna go to Matthew in just a moment, but first Timothy chapter 6 first of all and Let's before we go any further go to the Lord in prayer.

Amen father we're so Humbled so thankful for this day. That so many of us God in the days in which we live we can gather together safely and worship you. Father what a wonderful blessing. What a wonderful joy To be able to gather together With like-minded believers and to worship you God.

Lord on a day like this as we think about our country. It's very hard to not for a moment Want to fall on our face and to seek your face for the sake of our nation. God we know what's going on. We're shocked.

We can't even believe and we know God that the only answer is not a law. It's not a new president. It's not a new senator a new governor. The only answer for what ails this country in this world is the good news the gospel of Jesus Christ.

We think back to this day some 2 ,000 years ago when the King of Kings rode into Jerusalem on a young colt and Announced to Jerusalem to Israel to really all of the world that the promised Messiah the hope.

The hope for all mankind had indeed arrived. So Lord as we turn to your word this morning we ask God that you might indeed give us individually as believers a burden a Burden father to carry the good news of Jesus Christ to those around us.

Lord we think of neighbors that we interact with that are not Christians. We think of family members God. We need your grace. We need your help to reach the lost with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Father that's what this country needs.

That's what we need. That's what Unsafe people that we interact with at the bank and at the store our neighbors. They need Jesus Christ. They need hope. So we pray for that God. We also ask father that the Holy Spirit this morning might be pleased to teach us To open our eyes of understanding to your word God that you would be glorified.

We will glorify the King of Kings. Lord, we pray this in the name of Jesus Christ and for his sake. Amen. Amen. So Palm Sunday see it on the sign Palm Sunday. The day on the church calendar when Christians around the world celebrate and remember what scholars refer to as Jesus's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

It is the day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the back of a young donkey a young newly born Colt According to Scripture. It is the day that Jesus declared to Israel that he was the long-awaited promised Messiah King according to Scripture.

It is the day that tens of thousands of people recognized him as Savior and shouted Hosanna Hosanna, which means save us save us now all according to Scripture. It is also the day that marks Jesus Christ last day last week of earthly ministry in Just a few short days.

We know that he came into Jerusalem on a Sunday, which was the first day of the week and Then on Friday He took that long walk to Calvary dragging the cross after being beaten and scourged wearing a crown of thorns being spit upon and He would go to that cross and die what doctors tell us who have researched it the most unimaginable and horrific death that anybody could ever perpetrate on another human being which is death by crucifixion all according to Scripture and Then three days later after he was buried he would rise again from a sealed tomb that was guarded 24 7 By Roman soldiers 24 hours a day seven days a week.

He would rise from the tomb again according to Scripture. Now the last month or so If you've been here or watching online and if you are watching online greetings we've been studying the Lord Jesus Christ and We have seen how the scripture declares in no uncertain terms that Jesus Christ is both God and man 100 God 100 man while he was on the earth and that he was life and that he was light and This morning what we're going to do is unpack the rich truth that surrounds what the scripture tells us about Jesus Christ being King and That's what I want to speak with you this morning the kingship of Jesus Christ now not just in memory of What happened 2 ,000 years ago on Palm Sunday not just that but looking at this through the lens of how.

Should it impact our lives today? What should it be? What is the significance to Christians and to unbelievers living today people that maybe they they think there's a God? They're not a hundred percent.

Sure. Maybe they grew up in church. They don't really Believe all that stuff. What is the point of this day? That's what we want to look at today. So our focus and remembrance of what Christ did on that day is the history changing declaration and announcement.

Behold your king and that is the sermon title today. If you have the notes behold your king over 100 times in the New Testament. We read this title for Jesus Christ that he is King out of that 100 times.

Three times he is referred to listen to me. He is referred to as the King of Kings capital K King of Kings lowercase three times and See that begs a question. What does this title mean King of Kings? What is the significance of not labeling somebody King Jesus but King of Kings and we get some help here in first Timothy chapter 6.

In verse 15, you'll notice how? The Apostle Paul refers or describes to Jesus Jesus Christ. In verse 14, it's talking about Lord Jesus Christ's appearing. Okay. Which he will manifest in his own time.

Now look carefully. He who is the blessed and only potentate the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Now look at that verse because the word potentate means sovereign. What it's saying is that Jesus Christ?

He alone and We have to get this when it says potentate if we substitute the word sovereign. He is the blessed and only Sovereign. What it's telling us is that Jesus alone is the blessed and the only the singular the solitary the one and only sovereign the one over Everything Over everything in Absolute control over everything.

That is what this word Jesus is the omnipotent all-loving omniscient present everywhere King of Kings above all Kings. That is what Paul is establishing in verse 15 in other words. Take every King you've ever heard of in high school history college world history.

Humanities take every King that you've ever heard of throughout the six or seven thousand years of human history. From the Pharaohs to Nebuchadnezzar to Alexander the Great to Julius Caesar to the Emperor Constantine to the Queen of England to the King of England to the Queen of Belgium to the King of Belgium to the King Of Spain to the Queen of Spain.

Take anyone you've ever read about. From the least probably the King of Thailand. What a reprobate. Take any King any Queen. God's Holy Word describes in very specific very accurate laser Intense truth that Jesus Christ is.

There's no greater King. There's no more powerful King. There is no more sovereign King than King Jesus. He is the blessed and only sovereign King of Kings. Now on this day some 2 ,000 years ago this King Mounted a young down donkey.

He rode over West or sorry east of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olive and he rode down Down the road into the Kidron Valley Being followed by thousands of people both in front of him and behind him and along the sides of the road.

And he went down into the Kidron Valley on This young donkey with the mother donkey next to him. He's got blankets on that donkey that people have put on there people are cutting branches palm branches tree branches.

They're taking their coats off. They're laying it down. He goes down into the Kidron Valley and he comes up that hill into Jerusalem and they're shouting Hosanna Hosanna and He announces his kingship and this event marks his last Six days or so.

Depending on how you count your days on the earth in direct fulfillment of numerous Old Testament prophecies so that the people of Jerusalem in that day could say behold Your what King? Okay. Now, let's go to Matthew 21 Where Jim read and Let's go ahead and plant some roots and anchor ourselves to Matthew 21.

We'll go to a couple of other verses on this journey this morning. Shortly after Jesus was baptized Right after he had finished his 40-day fast and had been tempted By the devil in the root wilderness of Galilee.

Jesus began to preach that the kingdom of heaven Was at hand the kingdom of heaven was near it was right around the corner. He wasn't saying it was like right next to you. It's it's at hand. It's nearby.

Now who is the king of this kingdom when he's preaching the kingdom of heaven is at hand. It's near. Who is the king of this kingdom? King Jesus. So now we can go through the Gospels At least 20 more times in Matthew alone and we find Jesus Christ preaching and teaching about the kingdom of heaven.

And if we find him teaching and preaching about how the citizens of this kingdom were to live and this concept of the kingdom that is ruled by a king. Circles back to a question that I challenged you to ask if you can think back.

It circles back to this question that I challenge you to ask and It's the question the same question that is that is that is posed as Jesus rides his way into Jerusalem. And it's this question, please Focus on this question.

Who is Jesus Christ to you be honest? Who? Exactly is Jesus Christ to me and See what's interesting is this is the very question that this event brought to mind. To tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people.

Did you hear me? Because look at what the text tells us in verse 10. When he had come into Jerusalem. Matthew 21 10 When he had come into Jerusalem. All the city was moved saying What? Who is this dearly beloved friends and visitors to our church.

That is the question. That we need to be asking ourselves this morning as we think about Palm Sunday. Who is this man? Riding on a baby donkey that is causing such a ruckus. Who is this? Not to my neighbor not to somebody else not to the guy that cut you off on the way to church this morning.

Not to dr. Fauci. Who is this this Jesus. This was the question on their minds and it's the question that God's Word confronts each and every person ever born. Since the fall who is this now? Let us make sure we understand something.

The setting is a Passover week. Okay. Now let's get this in our minds. The average population according to historians. Not just people that are Christians, but any any historian the average population of Jerusalem in the first century.

Small town would have been 50 to 75 thousand people. However during the Passover week during the Passover week. The Jews would keep a record of the number of lambs. Slaughtered because they're celebrating and remembering what the Passover from Egypt, right?

So they're sacrificing lamb after lamb after lamb and they kept count. So they estimate anywhere from half a million to a million people would come to Jerusalem during Passover week. So one I mean more than one scholar suggests it could be a million.

So what we're talking about is this huge mass of humanity from all over Israel. Coming into Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover week and the King of Kings rides into Jerusalem. With this surrounding area literally teeming with people mobs of people they are everywhere.

There's tents. There's campfires all over the place. There's people coming and going. They got to go into town to get goods to get food. They're talking. They're visiting. They're going to the temple.

They're dragging their sacrificial lamb. There is this just this massive humanity around this little bit of village and Jesus takes this primary high point in the history of Israel's calendar year for his interests.

The population is swelled and he enters verse 10. He enters all the city all the city was moved. Who is this? And Then the multitude said this is Jesus the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee and You see people today have to answer this very question for themselves or this passage in this day Will mean nothing to them.

We already know More than they did because in verse 5 it says behold Behold your King. Believers today on Palm Sunday are left with a question. How do you regard Jesus Christ? Does this King? Have the proper and biblical place in your life is he King.

So today we want to consider the impact of these three life-changing words Behold your King and we'll be focusing our attention on Christ's presentation is King we'll be looking at the peculiar nature of his kingdom and then the practical Ramifications of his kingship the circumstances and events of Christ's presentation of his kingship.

Were were basically historically different than any King that you could ever think of. There were crowds, but there was no pomp and circumstance. There was crowds, but there was no coronation Ceremony there was a parade but there was no marching band.

There was no music. There was no Queen. There was just crowds and crowds of people. Looking at this man riding on a young donkey and one of the challenges that the events of Palm Sunday are to believers today is to understand This.

That the very nature and definition of Jesus's kingship should be molding and shaping and guiding and directing a Christian's life. Because please listen to me true Christians that have true somebody who has been truly born again are subjects in his kingdom.

Jesus Christ is the sovereign king of the universe. He is not a vassal King. He is not a figurehead. He is the Messiah King the blessed and only sovereign King of Kings. Christians have a king and he is the King of Kings and see whether we're acknowledging that kingship.

Whether we're living in light of that truth day-to-day moment by moment decision by decision doesn't really matter. Because he is still King of Kings so let's examine these three aspects of Jesus Christ kingship number one.

We are confronted with the King's Presentation. Now, let's take a look at the uniqueness of the King's presentation. Matthew 21 verse 1. Now when they drew new near Jerusalem. This is talking about this crowd of disciples that had been following him down from Galilee down and down to the Mount of Oliver.

Thousands of people following him. We know that right from the feeding of the 5 ,000 those kinds of things. So five six seven eight thousand people following him people in front of him they come to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem and Jesus sent two disciples and here's what he told him to do.

Go into the village opposite you and immediately you will find a donkey tied and a colt with her loose them and bring them to me and if anyone says anything to you, you shall say the Lord has need of them and Immediately, he will send them now.

What about this presentation of Jesus Christ as King? First of all, the King is presented riding on a young donkey. The cult there is the word for a foal or a baby donkey. So Jesus did not ride into Jerusalem on an adult donkey he told the disciples to go into this village right near where they were and There they would find a donkey tied and a colt with her in the very village.

And if you think about this what a wondrous demonstration of his deity. How could Jesus a mere man know that there would be a donkey with his mother with its colt tied up in this village impossible. So as God he was omniscient he wouldn't he knew there would be a mother and a donkey a Colt tied in that village and of all the ways that Jesus Christ could have entered Jerusalem.

He rides on this baby baby donkey. Why why why ride on a baby donkey verse 4? All this was done. That it might be fulfilled. Which was spoken by the prophet? So Jesus Christ the King of Kings Wrote in on a young colt in fulfillment of prophecy that was written down.

Zechariah said these words 500 years earlier. That the Messiah would ride into Jerusalem on a colt and notice verse 5 That the King is presented as the people's King because it says tell the daughter of Zion.

The term daughter of Zion referred to the people of Jerusalem and in a general sense all of Israel. So God's covenant people Jerusalem was sometimes referred to as Zion because Mount Zion is the highest and most prominent hill in Jerusalem and 500 years earlier Zechariah specifically says Because your Bible will have quotes there behold Your King is coming to you.

So understand that Jesus was not just any King. He wasn't just anyone's King. He was Israel's King. This was God's people's King. This was the promised Messiah King the seed of David. From the root of Jesse.

This was him. That God had promised Israel and who they had been waiting for for thousands of years. Well more likely centuries. Sorry about that third. Another unique aspect of his presentation is the accolades and praise if you look at verse 8 it says a very great multitude and In the Greek a great agree a great multitude because of the math that we can do we're talking 125 ,000 up to a million.

Let's round it off half a million. That's pretty big. Sacramento's what 1 million people in the Sacramento proper half the size of Sacramento. Some of the people were lining the roads. Some of the people were disciples who had been following Jesus some were in front some were behind him and they were all shouting what?

Hosanna Hosanna Hosanna to the Son of David verse 9 blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord and then later verse 15 The people in the temple including the children were saying again Hosanna to the Son of David the word Hosanna means salvation or Save save us.

Save us save us now as they refer to Jesus the Son of David. This is they knew that the Messiah was to come in the line of David and they add blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord that comes from Psalm 118 and notice the chief priests in verse 15.

Notice their reaction when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did and The children crying out in the temple saying Hosanna to the Son of David what it was their reaction. They were indignant.

They were they were angry and they say do you hear verse 16? What these are saying? See they knew. See they had connected the dots. They knew because Old Testament prophecies Signaled the coming of the Messiah King and these prophecies were being fulfilled.

Right in front of their very eyes and they were blind to them. He had just healed Nazareth. Lazarus had just come out from the tomb after being in there for a couple of days. He had fed 5 ,000 with to a couple of loaves and fishes he had he had made the blind.

See the deaf hear the mute talk the lame walk. All you know, this is before these things. You know what? One of these is it's called a smartphone. Before the smartphone word-of-mouth traveled fast. They knew that he was born in Bethlehem of a virgin.

They knew about his miracles. They knew about his cleansing of the temple. They knew and they're like, they're indignant. Do you hear that? These children are saying the very words that belong? Only to God.

And notice what Jesus says He goes. Yeah. Yeah, I heard it. But don't you know your Bible. Look what he says. Verse 16. Yeah, I got it. But haven't you ever read? Oh. Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants you have perfected praise.

Jesus is quoting Psalm 8 and he's quoting a Psalm that confirms his deity. Because that section of Psalm 8 that he quotes to refers to God. Psalm 8 where he's quoting from says this. Oh Lord our Lord.

How majestic is your name in all the earth who have displayed your splendor above the heavens from the mouths of infants and nursing? Babes you have established praise. Jesus receives the praises of the people and the children and then he explains it.

Quoting a Psalm where children are praising God. What is he doing? He's confirming once again his deity. King Jesus deserves the same praise as God the Father not just because he's a king. But also because he's God.

See the form in nature and the substance of Jesus's presentation as King was totally different than any other King in the history of the human race. It was in direct fulfillment of numerous Old Testament prophecies.

Setting this King apart from every other King these people had ever seen or heard of Jesus declares his kingship. By riding on a baby donkey into the streets of Jerusalem into Jerusalem on the week of Passover.

Directly fulfilling prophecy and establishing his kingship. Now second there is the peculiar nature of Jesus's kingdom. See, there's the King's presentation in this passage. And then secondly, there's the peculiar nature of his kingdom.

See a king has a kingdom. You can't be much of a king without a kingdom. And Jesus's kingdom is peculiarly and uniquely different from any other King in history. What was what kind of King is this King?

What was his kingdom? What is its nature who were to be his subjects? What are his laws? What about the government of this kingdom now on one hand? This kingdom is like others in which the subjects the the the the citizens of that kingdom.

Wait on the king and sit at his feet. Now who were Christ's? Subjects on Palm Sunday. Some humble unlearned fishermen. Who sat at his feet. People like Peter? Following this example a True disciple of Christ a subject of the king must do what his disciples did.

Sit at his feet. Hear his words obey his commands. You see here's the deal on this Palm Sunday Church. No matter who we are. Rich poor Middle class Slave. There might be people even watching by video that are grieving over a loss.

There might be somebody else rejoicing in a new job. No matter who we are. After receiving his grace. Disciples are to live under his rule and do his bidding. Jesus is King and Believers are subject to him.

See second Jesus his kingdom is peculiar in that the laws of his kingdom are written on his subjects heart. Jeremiah 31 33. The Prophet says this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days declares the Lord.

I will put my law within them and On their heart. I will write it flip over to Romans chapter 1. Hold your place there in Matthew 21, but over in Romans. Romans chapter 1 verse 19. Romans chapter 1 verse 19.

Because what may be known of God is Manifest in them. For God has shown it to them verse 18 for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth and unrighteousness.

Because what may be known of God is manifest in them. For God has shown it to them. Chapter 2 verse 15. Who show the work of the law written in their hearts. Their conscience also bearing witness and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else Excusing them, you know, there might be someone watching by video or even here this morning.

You're not a Christian. Well, God has given you his law written on your heart. Without even knowing a verse of this book God has given you the ability to know right from wrong. You don't need any more proof than that that there is a God.

Jesus his kingdom is different than other kingdoms. At this time back in Matthew 21, there's no New Testament. So the laws of God other Kings would have him written on steel other on stone other on parchment other on lambskin.

His laws were not announced by a herald coming to the city square of Jerusalem. Blowing a trumpet and saying here ye here ye thou shalt not kill thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt have no other God before me.

He does not write to his laws that way they are written on the fleshly tablets of a person's heart. Beloved when someone is truly born again their heart becomes his heart. Their will become subdued to his will their persona.

Molded day by day moment by moment event by event to Christ persona. His desires become their desires his glory their chief aim and his law Should become the very delight of their souls first. John chapter 3 says.

For if our heart condemns us God is greater than our heart and knows all things beloved if our heart does not condemn us. We have confidence Towards God. Now, there is so much more that we could say about this peculiar kingdom.

I Mean it is a kingdom in which riches have no part in its glory. The king of kings of this peculiar kingdom arrives poorest of poor on someone else's cult. This is a peculiar kingdom different than any other and there's a final aspect Here in Matthew 21 to this kingdom and it's the practical effects of Jesus's kingdom.

See there's the King's presentation. There is the peculiar nature of this King's kingdom and then there are the practical obvious effects of This kingdom. Verse 10. The first one one effect is all of Jerusalem was moved and When he had come into Jerusalem, what does it say some of the people?

Everybody I Mean guess what in the Greek all the city means all the city. So if you're sitting here and you ain't being moved today, you better check your mover. Come on. If all the city is moved there we better be moved a little bit now, what does this mean?

It means. Listen, it means that everybody that was there had something to say about it. Everybody felt something. All the city was moved as Jesus Christ rode through the streets. Some were asking who is this?

Who is this verse 10? Others this is Jesus. Remember the guy that just raised Lazarus from the dead. Remember the guy that fed to 5 ,000. Remember the guy that turned loathed in the fish. I mean remember remember remember this is him.

This is the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee. Who is this? It's the prophet. See, this is the true effect of Christ's kingdom wherever it comes. People are stirred one way or the other. This is so important to get Friends listen to me.

It is not the gospel if it does not stir. It is not the gospel if it doesn't make some people happy and others angry. It is not the gospel if it doesn't make some enemies and Just a few friends. Look at Matthew 10.

We forget these things. Look at Matthew 10. Matthew 10 verse 34 do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I Did not come to bring peace but a sword for I have come to set a man against his father a Daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law and a man's enemies Will be those of his own household.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me and he Who does not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

He who finds his life will lose it and he who loses his life for my sake will find it. You see one practical effect of this king's kingdom is that it moves people. A Second practical effect is back in Matthew 21 in verse 12.

People's worlds are turned upside down. Matthew 21 verse 12. Then Jesus went to the temple of God and Drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple and Overturned the tables of the money changers in the seats of those who sold doves.

Then he said to them it is written My house shall be called a house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves. See Jesus went to the temple and there sat men selling doves to be used in animal sacrifice and Jesus looked at them and with with it with a deep All the way down to his toes righteous indignation and Fervor.

He overturned the tables he set them flying and he soon emptied the whole court of these merchants who were making a gain of godliness and making religion a Stalking horse for their own pleasure. See this is a practical Example of what Jesus does when he comes into someone's life.

They are changed. Their lives are effectively turned upside down. You see we don't worship in a temple anymore. Brick and mortar has been replaced by flesh and blood. Church buildings like this is just a place we gather to worship.

But it's not the house of God and God doesn't live here. He lives in the people here. This building isn't holy. The believers body is holy. 1st Corinthians 6. 1st Corinthians 6. 1st Corinthians 619. This building isn't holy.

Our bodies are now The temple of God. 1st Corinthians 619. Or do you not know? That your body is the temple of The Holy Spirit who is in you whom you have from God? You are not your own. If you're truly born again, you belong to King Jesus.

For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's not yours. Romans 12 verse 1. Romans 12 verse 1. I Beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice.