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Fixed on What Matters: Jesus' Final Acts of Protection (Part 2/4)

Jeff
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Good morning If everybody would like to stand up sing a few songs here. Oh Lord, my God, when I, in awesome wonder, consider all the works Thy hands have made, I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout the universe displayed, then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee, my Savior, god, to Thee, how great Thou art, how great Thou art. Then sings my soul.

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My Savior.

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God to Thee, how great Thou art. How great thou art when through the woods and forest glades I wander and hear the birds Sing sweetly in the trees. When I look down From lofty mountain grandeur and hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze, then sings my soul my. Savior God to Thee, how great Thou art, how great Th thou art.

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Then sings my soul, my Savior.

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God to thee, how great thou art, how great thou art. When Christ shall come with a shout of acclamation and take me home, where joy shall fill my heart, then I shall bow in humble adoration and there proclaim my God, how great thou art, then sings my soul, my Savior.

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God to thee, how great thou art, how great thou art. Then sings my soul, my Savior, god to Thee, how great Thou art, how great Thou art. When I surveyed the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, died my richest gain. I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride. See, all my pride. See from His head, his hands, his feet, sorrow and love Float full, mingle down dear such love and sorrow, meet Horthor's compulsive rich, horthor's composo rich. A crown Were the whole realm of nature mine that were a present far too small Love so amazing, so divine Demons, my soul, my life, my all Hark. The gentle voice of Jesus falleth Tenderly upon your ear, sweetest cry of love and pity calleth. Turn and listen, stay and hear. Ye that labor and are heavy laden. Lean upon your dear Lord's breast. Ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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Come and I will give you rest. Take his yoke, for he is weak and lowly. Bear his burden to him turn he who calleth his own master, holy he will teach. If you will learn. Ye that labor and are heavy laden. Lean upon your dear Lord's breast. Ye that labor and are heavy laden. Come and I will give you rest. Then his loving, tender voice obeying. Bear his yoke, his burden take. Find the yoke. His hand is on you, laying light and easy for His sake. Ye that labor and are heavy laden. Lean upon your dear Lord's breast. Ye that labor and are heavy laden. Come and I will give you rest.

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Good morning, all right. Today's scripture comes from Matthew 21, verses 15 through 16. The leading priest and the teachers of the religious law saw these wonderful miracles and heard even the children in the temple shouting praise God for the son of David. But the leaders were indignant. They asked Jesus did you hear what these children are saying? Yes, jesus replied. Haven't you ever read the scriptures? For they say you have taught children and infants to give you praise.

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Let's begin with the word of prayer, father. We thank you so much for this morning. Father, we thank you for an opportunity to get together as brothers and sisters in Christ and to spend this time in worship and in praise to you. Father. We're thankful for the ways that you worked in our life this past week. May we be able to sit and reflect on those things. God, we're thankful for Jesus and just the way that he lived, even going into the last moments of his life. We're thankful for the things that he fixated on, the things that he saw as important. Be with us as we look at those things this morning. Open up our hearts and our eyes and our ears to the things that you want us to know. It's in your son's name that we pray, amen. Good morning.

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This morning we are continuing our series on the idea of fixed and very much looking at the last few things that happened in Jesus' life, the things that he was getting ready for and just things like that. In the stories we're going to look at today, there are two moments where Jesus gets I'm going to use the word frustrated. He maybe even gets angry, and so I was thinking about there are little things that happen in life that just kind of set us off. It's just a minor thing, it's not a huge thing, but just little things that can happen that can make us just angry. So I want you to think about those things. I'm going to give you a few things that make Josh mad, but I want you to think about what are little, minor things that get you upset. Here's the first thing. It doesn't matter if I get a cup with a lid, no lid.

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Every morning, as I'm driving to the church building, I always spill something on my shirt. I have an example today. Right there, the guy in the A30 said do you have a hole in your lip? I said I might. I may need to get that looked at, but it's just one of those things because it's never in a convenient spot. You know you never just spill and it's like on the side where your shirt can cover. It's always in your lap, it's always on your shirt, it's always where everybody's going to notice it and it's just one of those things. When it happens you're just like ugh, okay, that's another example.

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I really do not like going through the drive-thru and being asked the question will you pull up? I don't want to pull up, because if you pull up you're forgotten. They write you off for 20 minutes and then they're like what's that white Subaru doing out there? Oh yeah, we owe him 10 chicken nuggets. Now I won't say anything to the driver, I'll threaten like I'm not pulling up. I'm not going to do it. They asked me to pull up. I'm not pulling up. Sir, will you pull up? Yes, please, but I'll let Morgan have it. I can't believe they made us pull up. You can't believe they have the nerve. Twelve chicken nuggets and we got to pull forward. Come on, something makes Josh mad. Keep going. Come on Now, hold on. Some of you are getting mad already.

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I don't mind self-checkout. I don't mind self-checkout. I don't mind it.

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The thing that I don't like is being accused of putting something in the bag that I didn't scan. Just because I would be great at the game show of the shopping spree doesn't mean I'm trying to steal something. I just have 52 tubes of yogurt that I'm trying to scan and you get dinged right and the yellow light comes on and then it shows you the video like item may not have been scanned. It's like no, I know the item has been scanned. My total is $150. And I got four things in my cart. I know I got it, but then you got to wait because the lady that is supposed to supervise you is in mid-conversation, and so then you're waiting and you're like I don't even want this yogurt anymore and you just walk out and you leave. No, those are one of the moments that I get a little frustrated.

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And then there's this moment and I think I've shared this story before, shared these moments before you know, when you have a small child and you're in the like story time and you got to do story time and then you got to rock and you're rocking and you're rocking and you're rocking, and 30 minutes go by and you've fallen asleep but the child hasn't. And then, finally, there's the moment where both of you are asleep and you wake up and you're like, oh, I should put the child down and go to bed. And then you put the child down and you're walking out of the room and you step on something that makes you go or maybe some of you use different words but then you fall into the bookshelf, the books fall over and everybody's crying You're crying, the baby's crying, and this process just restarts and you think to yourself parents. You walk out of the room and you think I wasn't even tired when I walked in there, but now I'm going to bed and it's 8.35. Here we've made it.

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Think about those things. There are things in life that happen that just kind of send us over the edge, and a lot of times it's the things that send us over the edge. Maybe it's a little bit more serious. Maybe it's when someone's disrespecting your family. Maybe it's when someone's messing with your kids or mocking something that you believe in. It's in those moments that you realize that your anger isn't just about what happened, but it's about you're angry because it's about something that matters to you. Now I have to be straight with you. I have no idea who that kid is. Okay. I have no idea who that kid is Okay. But there is something about that kid that drives me nuts. It's not that he's wearing the Astros, it's the blue Gatorade mustache.

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Because when I was in the third grade I was on the basketball team and we were over. I think I've told this story before, so if I have just stay with me. We were over at Muskingum College playing in the old gym it was third grade basketball and the coach puts me in. He says go, I want you to play defense. You're going to guard number four. Well, I identified number four because he had a blue Gatorade mustache, and so I'm guarding number four.

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And it wasn't long before he turns and looks at me and he says your mom's ugly. And I tell you what I started crying like a baby. I started crying, I was so upset. So I'm on a baby. I started crying, I was so upset. I'm on the court, I'm trying to guard him. And finally the coach calls a timeout and he says sit down. What are you doing? Why are you crying? You've been in the game for two seconds. I said coach, I can't stand my mom's ugly. And he looks at me and goes does he even know who your mom is? And I said no. And he said why are you upset? And I said this is my mom.

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This is my mom. We get upset Because it wasn't about what he said, it was about who he said it about. Does that make sense? Sometimes our anger shows up when we're trying to protect something. I was talking to Jeff this week as we were kind of looking at these two stories we're going to break down this morning and he said oftentimes anger shows up when we're protecting something. We don't always think of it that way, but sometimes it appears because we're protecting something. Well, this morning we're going to look at two stories where I believe Jesus is protecting something and hopefully that will make sense as we move along. And so he gets mad at an object and then he gets mad at some people, but in both times it's not random. Both times I don't believe Jesus' anger is out of control. It's not about Him being in an inconvenient situation, but it's about Him protecting you and I. So we're going to do some storytelling again this morning. I know we did this last week, so if you're comfortable and you want to close your eyes, I just want to try to get you in this moment.

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It's early in the morning. It's early in the morning, the air is still cool, as you and the disciples are traveling the dusty road towards Jerusalem. Jesus is ahead of you and he's a little more quiet today than he has been. It seems like he's a little bit more focused on something. It seems like there's almost a weight in the way that he walks, like he knows what he's walking into. This morning You're hungry and those around you are kind of complaining and murmuring too that they're hungry too. But then, as you look out into the distance, you spot it there's a fig tree in the distance and it's full of leaves and it looks alive and it looks promising. And it feels like this is a moment where you're finally going to get the snack that you need. And Jesus sees it too. And you kind of watch Jesus walking straight to the fig tree. But when you get there, there's nothing. There's not a single fig. It's just a show. It's all leaves and no fruit. You're confused and then Jesus says something like this may no one ever eat fruit from you again. He's not yelling, he's not frustrated like we get when we're hangry, but he's just steady and strong, almost as if he's speaking about something different than just a tree. You move on towards the city, the moment kind of lingers. Later you'll understand that it wasn't about the tree, but but about it looking alive on the outside but empty on the inside.

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You arrive in Jerusalem and the temple comes into view, but as you step into the outer courts, you don't hear prayer. You hear chaos. You hear coins starting to clink on the ground, you hear sellers shouting, you hear animals being animals. It's loud, it's crowded, but right in the middle of it, people who came to worship, people who came to pray, are being pushed to the outside. The place that is supposed to be sacred, the place that's supposed to be a house of a prayer, now feels like a marketplace. It's more of a business than worship.

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And you look at Jesus and he just stops and he takes it all in. And then he moves, with a look in His eye, he starts to flip the tables. You hear the coins scattering all over the floor. You hear the fluttering of the doves flying off as they take flight and you hear Jesus driving out the sellers and overturning their profits, reclaiming the space and, with authority, echoing off the temple walls. You hear Him cry out. It is written my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations, but you have made it a den for robbers. It feels shocking, but it feels the way it needs to be. Jesus isn't losing control. He's taking control of the moment. He's protecting the purpose of the place. He's restoring worship. He's making a space for those who are broken, forgotten and seeking to find a relationship with God. As the dust settles, the blind and the lame come near and the children start to praise Jesus, and it's as if the temple comes alive again. Take a breath. Can you imagine that moment? Can you imagine the coins hitting the floor, jesus kind of raising His voice, the sound of a table being flipped over? Jesus wasn't reacting. He was almost revealing, revealing that God isn't interested in performance or appearance or noise, but he's interested in authentic faith and a heart that bears fruit and a life that makes room for Jesus.

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We jump into our story. This morning we're going to be in Mark, chapter 11. And these are the moments that show us Jesus's heart. It shows us what stirs him. It shows us what moved him. It shows us what he was willing to protect and what he was willing to restore. It shows us what Jesus is fixated on in the last moments of His life.

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Mark 11 v. 12 reads this the next morning, as they were leaving Bethany, jesus was hungry. He noticed a fig tree in full leaf a little way off, so he went over to see it and if he could find any figs. But there were only leaves, because it was too early in the season for fruit. Then Jesus said to the tree may no one ever eat your fruit again. And the disciples heard him say it. It's one of my favorite stories because it's so out of context. It's so different. For Jesus, most of his miracles were to produce something. This was almost like a destructive miracle, because guess what, when he tells that tree to no longer bear fruit, guess what's going to happen to that tree? It's not going to bear fruit.

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Riggo says we learn a couple things as we read through this story. Here's the first thing Things can look healthy, things can look alive, but it can be empty. As we read, jesus is approaching the fig tree because he's hungry. He's hungry for its fruit and from the distance, as he's looking at the tree, it looks like it's alive, it's vibrant, it's full. It seems like it has everything that it should be providing, but when he gets there, all it has is leaves.

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Now, I don't know a lot about fig trees, but I did study up a little bit. If a fig tree has leaves, it should be producing fruit. That's how you would know it's producing fruit, and so I want you to just understand this for a moment. I don't think Jesus gets mad at this tree if it doesn't have leaves, because at a distance he would know that it's not producing fruit, but at a distance it had leaves. So therefore he was expecting fruit. It was presenting itself to have fruit, it was showing itself to be put together, and so we learn a few things about Jesus. He wants real, he wants authenticity. This is almost like a real life acted out parable. A lot of parables were told. Just for Jesus to be able to share a story this one, he almost lives it out. There's a whole lot going on here than just a tree. Hopefully you've pieced that together so far. Jesus wants real.

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Our health of our faith isn't about how we look on the outside, but it's about the fruit that we're producing. So I have two questions for you to think about this morning, and the first one's going to sound really weird and you're going to chuckle. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Questions for myself Am I leafy or am I fruity? Am I leafy or am I fruity? Am I just portraying myself like I have it all together, like I've figured it out and I have this great faith, but on the inside I'm lost. On the inside, I don't know what's happening. On the inside I feel empty. Because we can do that, we can portray ourselves to feel like we got it all together. We can almost convince ourselves that we have it all together, but on the inside we're wrestling. Does that make sense? And so if we can present ourselves to be leafy and like we have it all together, but on the inside we're wrestling, does that make sense? And so if we can present ourselves to be leafy and like we have it all together, or are we fruity and truly experiencing God and the fruits that come from His Spirit? Does that make sense? So here's the second question Do I talk with my walk?

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We use phrases like this If you're going to walk, the walk you got to, or if you're going to talk, the talk you better, what if we just let our walk do the talk? That makes sense. The way that we carry out our lives, the way that we live in everyday moments, should be the thing that people see, should be the way that people see us. So do I talk with my walk as we dive into this story. We're going to look at one more part of this story, but I want to ask you a question now so that you can think on it. When we get angry, when we get frustrated, we're protecting something most times. So I want to ask you this question In this story, in this event where Jesus gets mad and yells at a tree, what is he protecting?

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What is he protecting? Think about that as we go into this next part. It says this we learned a second thing. We learned Jesus is concerned about relationships. Look, rabbi, the fig tree you cursed has withered and died. Then Jesus said to the disciples have faith in God. I tell you the truth. You can say to the mountain may you be lifted up and thrown into the sea and it will happen. But you must really believe it will happen and have no doubt in your heart. Faith in Jesus can move mountains. Does that mean I can start praying that God would physically move a mountain and he's going to do it? Is that what he's talking about?

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I want to draw your attention to what he says there, at the very beginning of that, the very first thing he says our faith must be in who God. When we have our faith in God, then our prayers will start to align with what God wants to do. Does that make sense? When we believe in God and we put our faith in God, then we will start to be dependent on God's plan, not our own. And then, when our prayers start to happen, guess what they're going to be aligned with?

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He's using a hyperbole. That's a big English word for you as a Meadowbrook grad. That's my big English word for you. Okay, hyperboles are like this I'm so hungry I could eat a, which is hilarious, because how many of you have ate a horse? Why don't we say cow? It makes a whole lot more sense. I'm so hungry I could eat a pig. I like some bacon. But that's what we say.

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We say things like that she talks a mile a minute. Does that mean somebody's had a radar gun? What's that mean? She's talking real fast and a lot. Morgan just shot me a.

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Look, I'm not going to say it.

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I'm not going to say it.

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I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it. We say things like I love you to the moon and back. What's that mean? I love you a lot. Right, mountain?

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This idea of a mountain was a common figure of speech back in the day. It means like, if I got a big obstacle, if I have a hurdle that I'm trying to get over, if I have faith in God, guess what? He can move those things If I have a genuine relationship with Him. It changes our perspective, it changes your prayers, it changes the impossible to the possible. Jesus wasn't speaking to His disciples about physical mountains, but he was talking about moments in our life that feel really big. He's talking about the obstacles of doubt, the obstacles of distraction. He's talking about the mountain of sin. He's talking about the mountain of doubt, the mountain of distance between God. He says if you put your faith in Him, those things could be moved. So then I ask you the question what is Jesus fixated on In this moment? What is Jesus fixated on protecting? My answer is this People. He's concerned about people. He's concerned on protecting people.

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Jesus was hungry. He went to the tree to get what he couldn't provide it for him, and so he says I'm not going to let you act like you got it together. You're not going to produce fruit anymore. Jesus is concerned about people because there's going to be people. Well, he wants us to be real and authentic and he wants for people when, when they're spiritually hungry, to be able to come to something that's producing fruit. He doesn't want the next hungry person to come up to that tree and not get what they need. Does that make sense? And so he says it's not going to exist anymore. Just not going to let that be a thing, because if people are searching, they need to be able to find what they need. And so he gets mad at the tree and he tells the tree it ain't going to happen anymore. We move our direction to another story. We switch moments for a second look at a different story.

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Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out all the people buying and selling animals for sacrifice. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. He said to them the Scripture declares my temple will be called a house of prayer, but you have turned it into a den of thieves. Jesus, I didn't know that until this week. He's fulfilling another prophecy. Isaiah 56, verse 7, says my house will be called a house of prayer. And so, in the last moment of Jesus' life, he walks into the temple and says my house will be a place of prayer, only further proclaiming I am the Messiah, I am the Savior, I am the Son of God. That has been proclaimed. But we learn a few things here. We learn that there's always going to be distractions. There's always going to be things that get our focus away from worship. I want you to understand what's happening here in the temple.

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The profiteers were working alongside the priest to rob every single person coming into the temple. Here's what they would do they would force them to buy an approved sacrificial animal. So they would come in with their own animal and they'd look over it and they'd say that's not worthy, you need to buy from this table. I read one commentary and it said, basically, it's like this you could buy a dove outside the temple for $4. When you go inside the temple, they're going to charge you $75. It's like when you go to a baseball game. Absolutely, we had that conversation. You're going to buy that $8.50 Coke when you're watching the Buckeyes, right? But here's what they were doing.

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Also, they had a different currency. You couldn't just use the payment method that you were using on the outside world, but when you came into the temple, you had to use temple pay, like Apple Pay. I tried, it's temple pay. So what they would do is they would make you pay an exchange rate, and so for you to get $4 in temple pay, you'd have to pay $8 just to get the $4 in that currency. Does that make sense? They're ripping people off in more ways than one. That's why Jesus is so frustrated. They're also having to pay a tax. Every Jewish man would have to pay a tax, which was two days' wages to be in the temple each year, and they drove that exchange up. And so here's almost the worst part, though. Do you know where they were having this marketplace? It was in the outer court of the temple, where the common people could be, where the Gentiles could be to praise and to worship. It was the only place that they were allowed in, and so when they come to pray and to praise and to worship, they're shoved to the outside because the marketplace is set up, and so it was costing people an opportunity to worship. They're trying to find a place of worship, and they can't.

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There are many things in our life we can relate to this. There are many things in our life, and there are many people that can prevent. We can relate to this. There are many things in our life and there are many people that can prevent us and distract us from worship. Jesus wanted all people to be able to come and to see. He wanted all people, no matter their status or condition, to be able to connect with God. And so what's he do? He clears the temple.

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If there's one moment I wish I could watch, I'd love to have seen that Because I always envision like the kid in me thinks like Hulk, like Jesus just went and just went. But you know, the more I think about it, was it more of like sadness? He looked around, he's sad, and he just walks over and just casually flips it over and walks over to the next one and flips it over. Maybe it wasn't as angry as I think it was, but more out of disappointment. You've turned my place of worship into a marketplace and he just casually is flipping over the tables. You just hear that one coin rolling across the floor.

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Jesus wanted to present an opportunity for people to worship. But here's the neat thing Jesus got frustrated. We get frustrated. You know what we do in our frustration. We usually quit or stop, and so many of us. If we were Jesus in a moment, we would flip the tables over and leave and we'd say things like I can't believe they would do that, I can't believe they would treat that place this way. I'm not going to serve here anymore. That's not what we'd do, because when we get frustrated, sometimes we quit. Jesus didn't let his frustration stop him from his ministry. Jesus didn't let his frustration stop him from his ministry. Jesus didn't let his frustration stop him from his ministry. The very next moment verse 14, we get this verse the blind and the lame came to him in the temple and he healed them. Came to him in the temple and he healed him. So he goes from a moment of flipping to a moment of touching and healing and even in his frustration, he doesn't stop presenting opportunities for people to build that connection with him. Immediately following the frustration, he's right back into ministry. So we've got to ask this question Do I let my frustration stop my ministry? Have I let frustration stop me from doing the things that God has called me to do? The moment gets even crazier as we wrap up and we look at the end of the story. It gets a little bit crazier. This is the verse that Keaton read, verse 15,.

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The leading priest and the teachers of the religious law saw these wonderful miracles and heard even the children in the temple shouting Praise God for the son of David. But the leaders were indignant. They asked Jesus Do you hear what these children are saying? And Jesus replied with yes, haven't you ever read the scripture? For they say, you have taught children and infants to give you praise. I love this moment because it's the religious leaders and Jesus just looks at them and says haven't you ever read it would be a slap in the face. It says that the children are praising Jesus in the temple because they've been taught to praise Jesus in the temple. They're doing what they're supposed to be doing. They're fulfilling scripture by praising Jesus. And the religious leaders are indignant which I had to look that word up. You know what that means. They're annoyed. The religious leaders are annoyed that people are in the temple praising. Isn't that crazy? So here I want you to think about this for just a second. Children are praising and men are pouting Green and theft in the temple. No problem, it's not a problem. We don't care. We're not going to stop it Praising Jesus. That's a problem. Think about how they had it twisted.

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And so I ask you this question as we wrap up this morning what is Jesus fixated on protecting? Simple answer, I think it's relationships. He wanted nothing to get in the way of people and their relationship with God. He wanted nothing to distract them and get in the way of people and their relationship with God. He wanted nothing to distract them and get in their way of being able to worship and discover God. And maybe this morning you're sitting here and you've been going through the motions and you feel like you got it all together, or you maybe portray that you got it all together, but deep down inside you're feeling empty. Or maybe this morning you've allowed the distractions of life, of sin, to take place in your life and it's blocking your relationship with Jesus that you know you need. Maybe we find ourselves in one of those moments. I want you to know that Jesus is working in every way to provide an opportunity for you to have a relationship with.

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Let's pray, father. We thank you so much for the way that you work in our lives, god. We confess that there are times that we appear like we got it all together on the outside, but deep down we're hurting, and that we're empty. Father, there are times where distraction and sin and busyness crowd our lives and our relationship with you. But, jesus, I'm so thankful for your unwavering love, for your patience and for, ultimately, your desire for a relationship with us.

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Father, I ask that you would clear the way this morning, god. If there's anything in the way, any distraction, any sin, any mountain in the way, father, I pray that you would remove it. Father, I pray that each and every person in here would know that you desire and that you value a relationship with us. God, I'm thankful that throughout Scripture, you remind us of that. We thank you for your son Jesus. We thank you for his example. We thank you for your son Jesus. We thank you for his example. We thank you for the way that he loved and interacted with people we're thankful for. Even in the last moments of his life, as he was coming to do the very thing to give us a relationship with you, he was fixated on us. Thank you so much for that. Give us opportunities this week to see your love and to show your love.

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It's in Jesus' name we pray, amen. I know the Lord will find a way for me.

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I know the Lord will find a way for me. If I walk in heaven's light, shun the wrong and do the right, I know the Lord will find a way for me. The Lord has said Go, preach the word to all the world. The Lord has said Go, preach the word to all the world. If I walk in heaven's light, shun the wrong and do the right, I know the Lord will find a way for me. Won't it be grand to hear Him say well done. Won't it be grand to hear Him say well done If I walk in heaven's light, shun the wrong and do the right? Won't it be grand to hear Him say Well done.

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Who else commands all the hosts of heaven? Who else commands all the men bowed down? Who else could whisper and darkness tremble? Only a holy God. Come and behold Him. The one and the only Cry out sing holy forever. A holy God. Come and worship the holy God. What other beauty demands such praises? What other splendor outshines the sun? What other majesty rules with justice? Only a holy God. Come and behold him. The one and the only cry out sing holy forever. A holy God. Come and worship the holy God. What other glory consumes like fire? What other power can raise the dead. What other name remains undefeated? Only a holy God. Come and behold Him, the one and the only Cry out sing holy, forever a holy God. Come and worship the holy God and behold Him. The one and the only Cry out sing holy forever a holy God. Come and worship the holy God, amen. Thank you.