Our Humble King

In this Palm Sunday message from Matthew 21:1–17, Pastor Jim walks through Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, showing how people can recognize a problem yet misidentify its true source. The crowds expected a political solution in the overthrow of Rome, but Jesus reveals a deeper issue rooted in sin within the human heart. He contrasts expectations of a powerful, conquering king with the reality of a humble King who enters on a donkey, not to seize power, but to heal, restore, and draw near to the broken. In doing so, Jesus also redefines the temple, disrupting empty religious practices and revealing that true access to God is no longer found in a place, but in Himself. The religious system had become outwardly active but inwardly disconnected, missing the very presence of God before them. As Jesus heals the blind and welcomes the praise of children, He demonstrates that the kingdom is open to the humble, the needy, and those willing to come to Him in faith. Pastor Jim emphasizes that the problem is ultimately internal, not external, and that Jesus addresses the root rather than the symptoms. The message calls for a response of humble need and childlike trust, inviting believers to stop trying to fix themselves and instead turn to Jesus as the true solution who brings healing, forgiveness, and new life.

Transcript

Kevin: Morning everybody, welcome. Happy Palm Sunday to you all. We're going to get started with our scripture reading for this morning's sermon, which comes from Matthew 21 verses 1 through 17. As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethpage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there. With her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them and he will send them right away. This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet. Say to daughter Zion, see your king comes to you. Gentle in riding on a donkey, and on a colt, the fowl of a donkey. The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit on. A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest heaven. When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, who is this? The crowds answered, this is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth and Galilee. Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. It is written, he said to them, my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers. The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did, and the children shouting in the temple courts, Hosanna to the son of David, they were indignant. "Do you hear what these children are saying?" they asked him. Yes, replied Jesus, have you never read? From the lips of children and infants, you, Lord, have called forth your praise. And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany where he spent the night. The word of God for the people of God.

Pastor Jim: Amen. Thanks, Kevin. So, At our old house, we had smoke alarms in different rooms and in the hallway. And the one in the hallway outside of our bedroom started acting up one night and it just starts you know, like two o'clock in the morning, And I wake up. And I'm like, I can probably ignore it. Beep. I can ignore. So I get up, I go out in the hallway, I think it was like seven and a half foot ceilings in that house. I can't reach it. I'm short. I'm like, okay, all right, I'll go get a ladder. Go get a ladder. Bring it upstairs. Take the battery out, put a new battery in. I'm laying in bed. I'm laying in bed. The thing's beeping again. I'm like, what in the world? I go out there. I'm like, well, maybe I put the battery in wrong. Switch it. Beep. Okay, I'm like losing my mind. I'm like, well, maybe it's one of the kids ones. I'm like going to their room. No, it's that one. Take the battery out, put a new bed, another battery. Beep. Just keeps going. Finally, I'm like, just take the thing off. I'm like, hopefully there's no fire tonight. I took it downstairs, threw it in the garage. Come back upstairs, get in bed. Beep. I'm like, what in the world? I go out there and I realize, it's the carbon monoxide alarm, which was next to it on the wall. They were so close to each other that I thought it was... Anyway. Point being, I identified that there was a problem. I knew there was a problem. I could hear it. I could sense it. I knew there was something wrong, but I misidentified the source. I went after something. But it was the wrong thing. In this passage today, what we see is Jesus coming into Jerusalem, into the temple, and the people have identified a problem. They've identified a problem in their world that they think he's going to come and deal with, but they've misidentified the source of the problem. They've misidentified that he's come to do something deeper and more profound than just the Roman occupation of Israel and Jerusalem, that he came to deal with sin. That he came to deal with something deeper inside the heart and soul of every man, woman, and child has ever been on this earth. They thought they knew what he was up to and they expected something from him. Everybody had expectations for Jesus in that moment as they're praising him. Hosanna to the son of David. They're offering these praises. They thought they knew that this is what the expected king was going to be like. And they thought they knew and understood that this is how we're going to operate in the temple. And we're supposed to do these religious practices and we're going to find God here in the temple doing these things that we've been doing for all these years. But you know, if you've celebrated Easter or Christmas for all these years, it starts to... Become humdrum, starts to lose some of the meaning after a while. 
Well, you can imagine hundreds and hundreds of years The meaning of the temple had kind of been lost and they were practicing dead and empty religion. And so what they find, what we find now reading this later is that he was not the king that they expected, but he was the king that they needed. He's often not the king that we expect, but he is the king that we need. A humble king. And what I want us to see today as we move through this passage is three things. Jesus as humble king. Jesus as the true temple and our response or the people's response. The three things humble king, Through Temple, And our response. 
So again, as I've been doing, I want to pray for us. Would you just bow your heads and pray with me? Jesus, this is your word. This is you. This is your actions. And so I pray that you would bring it home to our hearts and minds. Holy Spirit, you are what and who illuminates Scripture to us. You're who opens our ears and our hearts and our minds. 
So I pray that you would do that. Take what I say and make much of yourself. Help us believe the gospel more than when we came in here. Pray this in your name, Jesus. Amen. All right, so let's talk about our humble king. 
So you've probably heard me talk about this before. If you've been here or if you've studied this, maybe you've heard this in other churches, maybe you haven't, but there's something really symbolic that's happening in this passage. Jesus comes into Jerusalem and the people are laying down palm branches and he's riding on a colt. He's riding on a baby donkey. And Matthew's the only one who records that the mother is going along with them. It says he wrote on them. He puts it in plural and people are like, that's a contradiction. Stop. There's just two donkeys riding in together, right? The son, the male donkey of this mother. And they're riding in and people are praising and Hosanna to the son of David and they're worshiping and they're so grateful and happy. But what you don't know is most likely on the other side of the city, because it was a high holy holiday, that Caesar or Pilate would have been coming into Jerusalem riding on a war horse. Because he would come in and he would inspect things and he would want to see what was happening. And so you have these dueling images happening that Jesus is coming in as a humble King on a donkey. Which again, if you were going to go into a city as a king and you had your choice between a donkey and a white steed, what would you pick? 
Right? Jesus chooses the donkey and not even the mother donkey, not even the big donkey. He chooses the small donkey. He takes the compact car. 
Like, you know what I mean? Like he's taking the small one and he's riding in humbly coming in on a donkey, Leader of Rome coming in on a war horse. 
He doesn't come in threatening. He comes in servant-like. He comes in humbly into Jerusalem and he's not seizing power. He could have in this moment. Can you imagine? 
I mean, you know how crowds think and how they get. Can you imagine if he had just said, okay, now's the time. Now we're going right to the top. We're riding this thing right to the top, but he doesn't. It actually just kind of blows it off. He refuses the power that's being offered to him in this moment. He doesn't take the opportunity to crown himself King. He's not crushing his enemies, but he's building up the weak. We see in this story. It's fascinating. Again, not the expected King. Not what they were waiting for. They were waiting for a king who would come in and crush rum. That's what would be when the day of the Lord finally comes. He's going to crush the enemies. Hosanna, son of David, meaning Hosanna to the one who's kingly in the line of David. Now he's going to overthrow Rome and he comes in on a little donkey. And he goes into the temple. And he starts healing people. Children are praising him. 
I mean, it's just not the scene that you would have expected. He subdues the chaos. The crowd is roaring again. 
You know the donkeys aren't easy to work with, right? And he picks one that's never been ridden before, meaning it hasn't been broken. Again, I can only imagine what this stubborn donkey was like. And Jesus subdues it, subdues the crowd, keeps everything perfectly under control, and moves right in, calms the chaos. He cures the illnesses that are wrecking people's lives. He's just perfectly in control of the whole scene. And he cuts through the noise in this moment and he opens up a connection to God that people didn't even expect would exist for the weak and for the worshipful. He heals blind and lame people in the middle of the temple courts. And children are singing praises to him in the middle of temple courts. You would think if you were a person of God, you would celebrate this. Wouldn't you be celebrating if your kids were like Hosanna to the son of David? You'd be like, great. My kids are praising God. Awesome. No, not the chief priests. They're like, what is happening here? It says they're offended by the wonderful works that he did, the miracles. And they're offended by the children offering up praises to him. They're indignant about it. And they miss what Jesus is really doing. The people miss, they miss him. They misidentify the source of the problem. The problem was spiritual. It's not that the problem wasn't Rome. An occupying force that isn't bringing shalom and keeping people in slavery, that's bad. We can agree on that, right? That's bad. But they missed that the source of that is sin. Which is not just a Roman problem. That's an everyone problem. And they missed that he was there to deal with that issue. And some are shouting, save us. Hosanna means save us. Jesus is really Yeshua, which is really Joshua, which means God save us. 
So they're saying, save us, kingly one. Save us one who comes in the line of David. But they really I don't know if they really grasped what it was that he was there offering. 
And then the rest of the crowds, they're seeing all this commotion and they're saying, who is this? Their eyes were seeing, but not understanding who this humble king really was, what it was that he was coming to do. But do you pick up on who does in the story? Matthew wants us to see it. It's just this real quick verse. The children are worshiping. And the blind and the lame are coming and saying, I need you. I need you to, I don't care about Rome. Forkhead room, I can't see. My body doesn't work. Things are broken in my life. I need you. Kingly One. Children get it. The blind get it and they're both audacious enough to approach him. Can you imagine? Imagine you're that kingly one You're that president. You're that queen and you're riding into town. Children are coming up to you. Okay. All right. The blind and the lame. Coming up to you. That's not the moment for that. It's not the moment for that. This is a high moment. And he says, come to me. Come to me. This is our humble king. Friends And it's the audacious and the naive and the needy who find him and worship him. 
So he's a different kind of king that we see. That we need. But he doesn't just show that he's a humble king. He shows that he's the true temple. Do you pick up on this? The temple is supposed to be the meeting place of God. It's supposed to be where God and where heaven and earth would meet. Where people are supposed to find God and get to know him and come close and worship him. And he's essentially saying that is me. And he pulls on a couple of different verses when the chief priests kind of come after him and he's seeing the sales that are happening there in the temple courts. And again, We paint this in a really bad picture, but just think with me about what's happening here. All these pilgrims are coming into Jerusalem to celebrate this high holy holiday, and they probably didn't bring a sheep from 90 miles away. They need to buy animals that they're going to sacrifice. And so there's a whole market set up so they can buy animals. And again, probably would have been fine, except for the fact that we know that they were corrupt. And they're using bad scales. They were measuring things unevenly. They were being unfair towards the Gentiles. 
Right? And so Jesus is like, He's overthrowing tables. 
Like this is not the way this is meant to be. And he pulls on Isaiah and Jeremiah. To do this prophetic action. Meaning he's acting like a prophet in that moment and he's poking them right in the eye. And he stops the temple worship for a couple minutes. And he uses Isaiah and Jeremiah to do it. I want to read for you from Isaiah 56. This is, again, some of the verses that Jesus uses to sort of confront this action. Earlier on in this passage, Isaiah is laying out, God is laying out how someday foreigners will be able to come into the presence of God. 
Someday eunuchs will be able to come into the presence of God. The broken and the lame will be able to come into the presence of God. And verse 60 says, and foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord, meaning foreigners who commit to God. Outsiders, Gentiles who bind themselves to the Lord to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant. These I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of worship. Prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. Jesus is saying, don't you remember? That this temple, this heaven meets earth place is supposed to be a place where anyone can find God. Eunuchs, foreigners, Gentiles, people who hold fast to God, their sacrifices will be accepted. Which is a little bit of poke in the eye to the people of Israel back then to say, meaning yours aren't right now. Because you are corrupt. Your lips are praising me, but your hearts are so far from me. And Jesus brings that back in this moment and says, that's what you're doing right now. You with your corrupt scales, keeping the Gentiles out. You're upset that the blind and the lame are coming in here. That's your problem. He sank. And he shuts down. The market. To stop the temple worship for a second. He's quoting Isaiah to do it. It's an undoing of. Of who can get close to the holy of holies. It used to be that all these eunuchs, these foreigners, these Gentiles, people with diseases, and I think they weren't allowed to get close to the Holy of Holies. And Jesus undoes it and says, yeah, they can. Bring them in. But where does he bring them to? Himself. They complain that the children are worshiping him. How can you let this be happening? These children praising you, offering these praises up, Hosanna, son of David, you shouldn't allow this. And he calls back Psalm 8-2, which I read at the beginning of the service for our call to worship. He says, these children are offering up a praise to me. And it establishes a stronghold. Again, what the Psalmist is saying is children, infants, Needy people through their weakness in praising God actually establish a stronghold. Let that bake your noodle for a little while. Think about that. 
Like, you know what I mean? That like he's strong in our weakness. That when we praise him in our weakness, it actually makes a stronghold. And Jesus is saying, don't you remember chief priests? That it's God who will call forth praise from children and infants. He quotes the Septuagint, like I said. In their weakness, in their naivete, in their neediness, in their audacity, they're actually creating a stronghold for God. Again, he's just poking them again and again. The weak are made strong through praise. Then he quotes from Jeremiah 7. Look at this with me. When he says the den of robbers, it comes directly from this passage. This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord. Stand at the gate of the Lord's house and there proclaim this message. Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the Lord. This is what the Lord almighty, the God of Israel says, reform your ways and your actions. And I will let you live in this place. Do not trust in deceptive words and say, this is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord. If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place. And if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place. In the land I gave your ancestors forever and ever. But look. You are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. He says the deceptive words are, this is the temple of the Lord. They're like, they're claiming it. It's the temple. It's the temple. We have to do this. It's the temple. It's the temple. And he's like, you don't even know what it means to be with God. The way you're treating the foreigner and the widows and the orphans. Come on. It goes on. Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to bail and follow other gods you have not known. 
And then come and stand before me in this house. Which bears my name and say, we're safe. Safe to do all these detestable things. Has this house, which bears my name become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching declares the Lord. Let me tell you something. That's a scary thing to hear God say that. I've been watching, he says. I've been watching and you're coming in here saying we're safe. We're the good guys. We've been doing all the things we're in the temple of the Lord. We're in the temple of the Lord. And he says, I've been watching. You've not been doing the thing. Again, your lips praise me. You're offering the sacrifices, but your hearts are far from me and you've made it a den of robbers. Jeremiah said this hundreds of years before this. And now these Jews and Jesus's day are so happy because they've rebuilt the temple and they're saying, we're in the temple. You can't let this happen in the temple. And Jesus says, you've made it a den of robbers. He brings it right back. He's acting like Isaiah, a prophet. He's acting like Jeremiah, a prophet, and he stops the temple worship. He shuts it down in that moment. That's what's happening. Again, So many people in my generation are like, look at Jesus. He overthrows tables and look how angry he gets in the temple. Friends do not miss the prophetic action that he's doing in this moment. He's acting like a prophet of old and he's shutting down the temple worship so that he can draw attention to them so that he can open their eyes so he can let them see what's actually happening in their midst, that they are corrupt, that they're not actually walking with God, that they're actually far from him. It wasn't just that he had a little temper tantrum. He's prophetically stopping the temple worship momentarily. Because I'm sure they got right back to it as soon as they could so they could keep making money. But he shuts it down momentarily. Why? He stops that temple worship because he is the true temple. They don't need it. He's saying, you don't need to do this because I'm here. The meeting place of God with humanity where heaven meets earth, is me. Is Jesus Christ. 
That's why he allows the children to come and worship him. That's why he allows the broken to come into his presence and he will touch them and heal them. Matthew doesn't say it, but I can only imagine like he's done elsewhere in the gospels that he's laying his hands on people. That unclean people who weren't allowed into the temple. Are touching the temple of Jesus and being made clean. Do you see it? He's making all things right. And he's just momentarily showing this is what's coming. This temple will no longer be necessary because I am the true temple, the meeting place of God with humanity, the house of prayer. It's the Lord who sanctifies the temple. And now the temple sanctifies them. And again, Imagine this. Imagine kings and queens of our day. Presidents and dictators. Imagine how they come into a room. Imagine the procession of cars and police cars and motorcycles and they all roll up to a place and that King or queen or the president or a dictator, whoever gets out of the car. They would move briskly into the place of honor, right? And here's Jesus, our humble king. The true temple. Who allows a blind person to come and slow him down. Allows a lame person hobbling. To him. Saying, save me. Jesus allows children to worship him. I don't know what you feel like when you're on your way to a nice dinner somewhere in the city and you walk past somebody who comes up to you asking for money, stinking of urine and alcohol, but You get the picture, right? You want to move on. You want to get to your thing? And here's Jesus, our humble King saying, Bring them. Bring them. Bring them. 
That's why I'm here. So that the true temple could touch them and they could be healed so that the meeting place of heaven and earth could be drawn close to them and they could find healing and Shalom. 
So This is what people were missing. They knew there was a problem. They thought the problem was Rome. And Jesus all along has been saying, it's actually so much deeper. It's actually inside of you. Inside of all of us, it's called sin and slavery to it. And it produces broken systems that break people. That wreck people, that sin disintegrates, friends. And so the good news for us today, please receive it, hear it again for the first time, maybe. The good news for you and me today is that Jesus has come. As a humble king in the true temple. He comes as a humble king to heal, not a warrior king in wrath. He brings judgment on the temple practices. Which in turn brings judgment on him just a week later. He brings wholeness to the humble. Which brings brokenness to him. Do you see it? He makes connection to God possible. By losing his connection with God on the cross. Children praise him, not truly understand him, not understanding even what they're saying. Adults mock him thinking they understand. 
So the question becomes for me what it is for the people in this passage, what it is for us this morning. How do you respond to that? How do you respond to a King who comes in humility? How do you respond to Jesus who comes to this? I am the true temple, the meeting place of God with humanity. To me, I got two good options for us. Many to pick from, but here's two that I would boil this down to. One, we respond in humble need. In humility ourselves. In humble need. Admitting that we have a problem. Admitting that we need help. And I love this story and I love the gospels to see Jesus, to Because all are welcome. No matter how unclean and unfit. And so I don't know what you've got going on in your life. Big or small. I don't know what you've got that's gone on in your past that you don't want anybody to know about the things that you've hidden, the things that you've tried to bury that still hang on. Nag at you, mess up your relationships. I don't know what you got going on. Jesus says, Bring it. Bring it. You can come and be near me. I didn't come to slay you. I came to save you. I came to make you whole. 
So friends, we come to Jesus today, whether you've known Jesus forever, This is the first time you're hearing about him. I don't know. He says the same thing. Come to me. All you who are weary. Heavy laden. Take me on you. My burden is light. Come and ask for help. He offers himself to us despite our messed up expectations, all the other things we think he should be. Come to Him in your need. Are you going to Jesus in your weakness? This is for me, man. This week, I needed this. Are you coming to Jesus in your weakness or are you trying to hold it all together? I a Are you allowing him to tame... The donkey that is your life. You're coming to him in your weakness saying you'd be the strong one. The one who rules and calms the chaos. He is compassionate to bring you close. To heal you. Set you free to be with God. The one who dies instead of giving us the death we deserve. 
So we respond in humble need. We respond in childlike praise. I love it. These are the two people that Jesus, you know, goes after in this story. The humble in need and the people in childlike praise, the weak are able to worship Jesus for who he truly is. The weak are able to worship Jesus for who he truly is. Hosanna, son of David, like I said, means save us. Kingly One. Do you remember in I think it's Matthew 18. Jesus says, truly, I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Unless you truly change and become like little children. What are little children like? Audacious. Just asking for anything and everything. Faithful. No, not faithful. Little face. It becomes big faith, I guess, with a kid. Innocent. Saying, I don't know everything. But I know I need you. Do you come to Jesus like that? Children are weak and audacious. Are you going to Jesus in worship for who he is or who you want him to be instead? Who you're trying to force him to be. To look like you to look like your political party to look like you know your world view to look like the way you expect things to be or you come to him like a child like i don't know i just know i need you i'll go wherever you go whatever He accepts your praise even though you have little idea what it fully means. And when we praise. When you praise. He builds a stronghold out of it. It was a stronghold out of our weakness that we can, Run to him. And find him there. 
Like Paul says, he is strong when I'm weak. Jesus is friends, the true temple. Anywhere, any minute. Any day for any person, the true meeting place of God with humanity, the place we run to, Hide in and find God. Safe from religious legalism? Safe from moralism, Safe from behavior modification and safe from the accuser that says you're no good. We run to him and he says, I love you. We say, forgive me. He says, I do. Say, go with me. He says, I will. This is our God, friends. This is our true temple, Jesus. Are you going to Him in humble need and childlike praise? 
So. Thinking back to that alarm on my wall. I knew there was a problem, but I misidentified the source of the problem. I was going after the wrong thing. And that's what happens in this story. These people that go after the wrong thing. And the end result, It's not praise and worship of Jesus. It's actually his crucifixion. It's how wrong they get it. Because he was letting children praise him in the temple, because he was healing the blind and the lame. He wasn't the king that they expected. The crowds knew something was wrong. The leaders knew something was wrong, but they thought it was Rome. They thought it was out there. And Jesus comes and says, it's actually in you. That's the problem, friends. And it's no different today, 2000 years later. The problem is not the government. The problem is not, you know, that spouse or that job or that annoying boss. The problem is not, you know, the car and it's not the finances. The problem is such it's deeper inside of us. Now, all those things can be bad. They all need the shalom and the healing of Jesus, but it has to start inside of you. That deep place. Your soul, Our sin resides and idolatry lives and thrives. These people thought Rome was the problem. But friends sin was the problem. They thought the temple system was the solution, but it had become dead, empty religion. They thought they needed a powerful King, but what they really needed was a humble savior. Friends, what we need is a humble Savior. And what we will celebrate next week is that he is the rightful victorious King. We will see that through death he arises to victory and he is the victorious, powerful King, but it comes through humility first. It comes through sacrifice first. It comes through the cross. Jesus rides into town, not as the king they expected, but as the king they needed. Humble king who doesn't crush his enemies, but comes to be crushed. A true temple who doesn't keep the broken out, but allows the broken to come in so he can heal them. A savior who doesn't just fix circumstances, lots of them he won't. Maybe you found this. Savior who doesn't just fix circumstances, but deals with the real source, sin. Separation and death. 
So I remind you again of the gospel today. That Jesus is the rightful, victorious, eternal King. Who has made peace with God through his life, his death, and his resurrection. And because of that, we can have new identities. Because of his humility, because of his bringing heaven and earth together in himself, and we can find him there, we can have a totally new identity. That means we're safe. That means we are secure. That means we are loved more than we could ever comprehend. That means we are approved and we don't need to prove ourselves to anyone. That means we can live in grace and not have to prove ourselves to the world because he's good and gracious means we can be totally new people. Means we can have mission, means we can have significance. This means everything. 
So the question is not, do you see the problem? I know you do. You live in the same world I do. We see the problem. We feel it every day. You can just Sense it. There's something wrong with the world and Jesus and I'm here to remind you this morning. Not just out there. Than here. C'est NOS! All of us. We need him to sanctify us, to change us, to make us whole, to forgive us of our sins and to give us a new identity. Have you correctly identified the source of sin and come to the true King, to the right King? Have you come with humble need? Stopping trying to fix yourself. Outside of the temple, but instead coming into Jesus, into the true temple and being made whole. Are you coming to him with childlike praise? Audacious, Not knowing everything, not having it all together. Not having it all figured out. Just seeing him for who he is as a good and gracious king saying, I need you. I worship you and I need you. Go with me. Help me. Forgive me. Friends, don't silence that alarm. Let it keep reminding you there's a problem. But see that he is the solution. But he is the answer. Run to the humble king, run to the true temple and find your home. In and near God. Let's pray together.