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Don’t Get Caught Up — Know Who Jesus Is | Pastor David Flores
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On Palm Sunday, the crowds welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem with praise and celebration—but many misunderstood who He truly was. They expected a political deliverer, while Jesus came as a spiritual Savior.
In this episode, we explore Matthew 21:1–17 and unpack the deeper meaning behind Palm Sunday, the danger of following the crowd without understanding, and the importance of answering one critical question: “Who is this?”
This message challenges listeners to move beyond surface-level faith and into a deeper, more authentic relationship with Christ.
Key Themes:
- The difference between hype and truth
- Misinterpreting Jesus based on expectations
- The spiritual significance of Palm Sunday
- The cleansing of the temple
- Becoming a house of prayer
Key Scripture:
Matthew 21:1–17
Zechariah 9:9
Takeaway:
Don’t just get caught up in the moment—know who Jesus really is.
Amen. Welcome to Palm Sunday. Praise God. We're celebrating. We are rejoicing because we read the end of the book. We saw the movie, and we know how it turns out. All right. How many have ever seen a movie? You know the ending already? Anyone seen it once? A movie? Second time, third time, you know the ending already? Come on. How many times have I seen Rocky? I'll make that for those who are watching. Remember my Rocky reference? I've seen it more times than I can remember. Why? Because the story never gets old. The story of life, the story of down and the worst place you can be to rise up and to be victorious over yourself, over your mindset and everything of that nature. It's an enduring story. And in the Bible, that's what we have in Christ Jesus our Lord, the enduring story of what he has done. So today, as we look at the Word of God at Palm Sunday and we celebrate not only the triumphal entry, because we are on this side of the cross, and we have this book. And the Jews did not have this book. They did not have the cross. They had a lamb that was perfect that they had to slay every year for their sins to be forgiven, to be covered. But Jesus Christ, once and for all, he laid down his life for us. So we're going to look at the Word of God today. And I want you to go in your Bibles with Matthew chapter 21. Share some thoughts about the significance of Palm Sunday, the power of what Jesus Christ did. Knowing as we've been teaching about joy to endure, we've been teaching about the victory as a mindset. Because Jesus had all these things, and the Lord instructed me to dive into these things at the beginning of the year, because he was going to show us how we're going to walk through our lives every day like Jesus. Let's look in our Bibles at Matthew chapter 21, all right? Matthew chapter 21. Verses 1 through 17. Praise the Lord. And in verses 1 through 17, we're going to hear the story of the triumphal entry. My Bible says it. Maybe yours says that, you know. I don't know if they do it on the electronic Bibles, but mine does. Others do. All right. It declares it. Jesus rised into Jerusalem, the triumphal entry. And when they drew nigh, the disciples and Jesus unto Jerusalem. And they were come to Bethage, unto the Mount of Olives, then sent Jesus to disciples. See, Jesus, as we've been teaching, he knew he was going to enter this city of Jerusalem this one more time. He was going to do it. That's what the Father had planned to do it, as I was teaching recently. Jesus wanted to please God. He's the Father. He says, I always do that which pleases the Father. And Hebrews 11, 6, it's impossible. It says, without faith, you can't please God. And faith literally is translated obedience. Belief and obedience. Believe what God says and then do it. That's what that's translated into. And so he's going into and he tells them, verse 2, go into the village over against you, and straightway you're going to find a colt tied and a donkey and a colt with her and loose them and bring them with thee. If anyone says anything against you or to you, you will say, The Lord has need of them, and straightway he will send them to you. Alright? So Jesus was coming in with the foreknowledge and hearing the word of the Father. See, remember, and I'm going to keep on saying this till Jesus comes. And I was just recently reading over those verses again in the Gospel of John. Jesus says, first of all, he says, In me I can do nothing. It's the Father in me he does the works. So he gave all the credit to the Father God as an example for you and I to do the same. And then he said, I only speak those things that I hear the Father say. So every time you read in your Bible, mine's got red letters. That means the Father told him, say this. Maybe he had, like in our day, we have a supernatural little earpiece, you know, and we can hear it. And uh Pastor Doris and I, and we were on the set of the rally too, and uh, you know, we were she was doing the catering, and uh we were doing the crafts and services. That meant she was providing the food for all the cast and crew, and crafts and services meant we were making sure they had donuts, bagels, uh uh, muffins, and coffee all day. And that could mean till one or o'clock in the morning. And so that's what we were doing. And one of the actors there, who's a you know, I don't know if you call him an A-lister, B lister, whatever. He's significant. He's had many. In fact, that day he told us he'd been on the set uh 67 times already. 67 times he had been in production acting and filming, okay? So this guy was busy, all right? This guy was busy, and so he had an assistant with him, and his wife was with him, and so, you know, as we saw what was going on in the production, we found out that he had an earpiece, all right. He was going over the lines, but he had an earpiece, and the his uh assistant was giving him the feeding, as they say, feeding him the lines. Okay, anybody ever heard that term? Him the line. So they were feeding him the lines as they were actually filming the movie, okay? And of course, if you think about it, 67 sets, how many scripts, 67 scripts, how many lines that he had to memorize, and some kids can't memorize three lines for a play that they do once in the year, okay? My grandson Joel, he can memorize how many lines did he have in that tangled one? About 30 lines entangled? Something like that. 30 lines that he memorized for the production here at the Yor Belinda Spotlight Theater. And if you've never been there, check it out. Have great productions, okay? It's my wife says Pastor Dorsey, it's like a Hallmark town because the theater seats about what 30, 40 people, maybe, I don't know, crammed in side by side. And the stage they have 10 to 12, whatever, you know, young actors, and it's awesome. It's it's uh it's always a fun thing, and we laugh all the time. And uh so my grandson learns his lines, literally, lines. Not only that, he learns the acting cues, and of course, the famous line entangled is where you know he has everybody says wait for it, and he has to give that, you know, distinguished uh, you know, face of that smolder, okay? And I can't do that smolder. He can try, you know, but he hit it, and and his little one-liners that he perfect timing, and the whole place burst out laughing because of his comedic timing. Uh, you know, well, I'm trying to compare that to Jesus walking towards Jerusalem. First of all, he said, Hey, we're going back to Jerusalem. And then when he gets to there, he says, Hey, you guys, go get this, go find me uh uh, you're gonna find a donkey, and you're gonna find that donkey has a little colt, and tell them uh you want to borrow it for a while, and then tell them the, and if they give you any guff, tell them the f the Lord has need of them. And then so they did that. So he got all that. What I'm saying is, he got all that from the father. The father told him, This is what you need to do. This is what you're gonna say. The father already knew what the people were gonna do in the town. Jesus had already prepared himself already because he had already been prophesying that that this temple, he said, if you destroy the temple, I'm gonna raise it up on the third day. So he was already knewing that he was eventually going to die at the end of the week. All right. And so, and and verses in the and the prophecies, one of them was in Zachariah chapter 9. Zachary chapter 9, one of the prophecies I asked, you know, I was researching why did they misinterpret that Jesus was not coming to overthrow the Roman government, that Jesus wasn't coming to do a political upheaval. Oh, they didn't get it, but they had there were many prophecies of a king coming in. There were many prophecies of the king gonna rule and reign. One of the most significant is in Isaiah, when it says, Then the government shall be upon his shoulders. All right, and so those are all there. Well, they took one in Zechariah 9 that he's gonna overcome everything, and this is the New King James Version. It says, It says here, I'm gonna read it. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. This is verse 9, Zechariah 9 and 9. It says, Behold, your king is coming to you. He is just and having salvation. Lowly and right, wait, wait, lowly and riding on a donkey? A colt, the foal of a donkey, not even the donkey itself, not even Mama Donkey. We're talking baby donkey. All right. And he says, I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, the battle bough shall be cut off, he shall speak peace to the nations, his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. And it goes on to say how that covenant will be fulfilled and he was going to save his people. And so this is what they were looking at when he was coming in, that he was going to be the king. And even the the government, they had heard from the religious leaders that Jesus was just out to overthrow the Roman government. So they were getting the Romans uh in line with their their agenda to stop Jesus because they saw Jesus and they couldn't deny it. They could not deny that Jesus, everything that he said was coming to pass. Everything he did, even one of them said, Well, what can we do? No one can do these works, these mighty works, unless they be from heaven, from God. I mean, that they were acknowledging it, but they were in denial and they didn't want it to come to pass because, you know, they're all about their jobs, they're all about their place of power. They they were not in line with what God wanted to do at that time. God wanted to bring a powerful change in the earth through his son Jesus. And that change was not going to be a physical governmental change. That change was going to be a spiritual change where the sins of the people would be forgiven. They would be, as Jesus said, you'll know my word and my word, you'll know the truth, and the truth shall make you free, set you free. Literally, it means set you free from your sins. That's what he was talking about. And the people did not understand it. The religious leaders thought he was going to overthrow the government, and they didn't want that. So there's misinterpretations that go on, but that's okay. That was all prophesied. Jesus is going to enter in right here, on a donkey, on a colt. And so he comes into town, Matthew chapter 21. All right. He comes into town, and in verse 5, there's a verse of the prophet says, Tell you the daughter of Zion, behold, thy king comes unto thee, meek, and sitting upon a donkey and a colt, the full of a donkey. And the disciples went and did what Jesus said. Verse 9, and the multitudes that went before. Well, verse 8, let's go to verse 8. And very a very great multitude spread their garments in the way. Can you imagine? He's coming into town, and suddenly people get caught up in this spirit, and they start taking off their coats and throwing them on the ground. Why? Because the king was coming, and his feet shouldn't touch the dirt. And they were putting this down. And so they put their garments, others cut down branches from the trees and straw them in the way, and the multitudes that went before that followed cried, Hosanna to the son of David. This is a word that's taken from Psalms 118. Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest. And when he was coming to Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? Who is this? So try to picture yourself, you know, in the crowd that day. Suddenly people are caught up. Everybody's saying, caught up, caught up. You see that spirit today. People get caught up, don't know what it's all about, but they get caught in something, and they see others start to do something, and so you know, you know, I we're not going to use an old phrase I grew up with, but they see it, they do it, so then they do it. You know, monkey see, monkey do, there it is. All right. Because that's what, you know, the animal kingdom, they follow each other's examples. That's what they do. Human beings were the same. We follow others' examples. So, oh, you're throwing your coat down, hey, what's going on? Oh, throw my coat down. Oh, you don't have a coat. Oh, get a branch. They get a branch, start coming down. You don't have a coat, hey, get all these branches, start cutting them down. I mean, if you were a landscaper that day, you probably made a lot of money, you know, cutting down palm trees for people and saying, here's some leaves for you. And so they struggle down, and at the end of all of it, they go, Who is this guy? Things can happen in your life. You can get caught up in it, and others get caught up. It's called a it's a spirit of the day of that moment. But if you're not in knowledge of what's going on, you'll just get caught up in it, and at the end of it, you'll figure out you try to ask your question, what do we just do and who do we do it for? What's this all about? And that's where they were at. Sadly, the world is the same way. The world is the same way. They got caught up in something and they go do it, and they are the, you know, and if you have a crowd, great, the bigger the crowd, the better. Because nobody wants to do it by themselves. All right? Imagine one guy with a coat on the ground saying, Over here, master, over here, Lord, I know you're gonna be king, walk on my garment. No, it's much better with a group, a crowd, a lot of people. Again, that's what the world does. A lot of people. Well, the more the merrier. Let's get behind it. That all kind of says to each and every one of us, this must be real, this must be the right thing to do. Look at everybody's doing it. And you know the old thing, and maybe your mom and dad, maybe your grandpa said, Well, if your friends tell you to jump off the cliff with me, you're gonna do it too because they're all doing it? No. But that's the spirit again. They get caught up in it. And in our world today, you get caught up in something, you don't even realize what it's all about, don't even realize what you're doing. And you ask yourself, Who is this? What are we doing this for? And even in our church world today, it's the same way too. Why are we singing that song? Why are we worshiping? Why are we doing this? Why are we doing that? Why are we supporting this? Because of so many people, and the enemy wants to keep people ignorant. The Bible says, My people perish for lack of knowledge in the book of Hosea. My people perish for lack of knowledge. So, see, the enemy does not like knowledge. The enemy hates knowledge. He likes to pervert knowledge, he likes to corrupt knowledge, he likes to bring lies into the education system, the academia, and whatever, and knows that if they can persist out as knowledge and information and people buy into it, then they can change a generation. They can change a whole culture. And guess what? That's exactly what we've seen in our day. A whole culture doesn't even remember what 1776 was all about. A whole culture doesn't even know why we're here. Why are we in this great nation? But it doesn't matter if we're in the USA or if we're in France or we're in Germany or we're in Venezuela or we're in England or China or wherever, doesn't matter. The world spirit is still doing the same thing. Rewriting history, getting you forget, telling you that thing never happened. I'm ready. I mean, how many have heard already that we never put a man on the moon? That was that never happened. Never happened. Never put a man on the moon, they even made a movie about it. And almost got you have to think. This could be true. It's possible. See, when we start thinking man is so above that he can think of schemes that will deceive a whole world. Come on. That's not man. That's demonic. That's demonic spirit operating here. Think he can see a whole world. Then there's the flatliner, the flat worlders, praise God for them. Hallelujah. May they never take cruises. How many know flat line worlders never take cruises? They stay on land. Okay. They don't ever get on a boat to go somewhere. Because they might get to the end and fall off the edge. I mean, I grew up saying if you dig a hole down right here, you're going to end up in China. I don't know if that's true. I haven't made this the geological survey and say if I actually did go down here in this direction and kept the straight line, where would I end up? I don't know. But this is what the spirit of this world is doing to bring confusion, to disrupt, to corrupt, to change the minds. And the spirit of the world got in here. Yeah, they were praising, they were throwing palms, they were saying, look at the king is coming. But this wasn't the time for the king to come. They misinterpreted. Why? Because they were under such oppression. They were under such bondage. They were almost like the Israelites in Egypt. So much oppression. So much bondage to the Roman government, just like the Jews were in Egypt, the same thing. So when a Moses shows up, they'll take anybody who's going to try to get him out of here. Anybody. They didn't even have to believe Moses. It took 10 plagues for them finally to believe. Okay, he said, pack up, take everything that you want to take with you, and let's go. Okay, okay, okay. I think you proved yourself ten times. Maybe we're gonna follow you. But when they get out in the wilderness and now they have a Red Sea in front of them and an army chasing them behind them, all of a sudden they throw it out the window. We never believed this guy, anyways. We never trusted him. He was a murderer, he was a fugitive. We how can we why are we out here? And what do they do? Start blaming God. God brought us out here so that he could kill us in the desert. Hey, if God wants to kill you, he can kill you right where you're sitting right now. He needing to take you to a desert place to kill you. I mean, if he's gonna show off his power, why don't you just do it in front of everybody? Do it right there in Egypt. So every Egyptian will know look what God did to his own people. Imagine what he'll do to us. We're not his. Yeah, God could show his power anytime. So you see how the man, the natural mind begins to think and is so easily deceived, like Eve in the garden. So easily deceived. So these people, they thought, this is it. Jesus is gonna come. I don't know how he's gonna do it. He don't have horses, he don't have chariots, he don't have bows and arrows. I don't know how he's gonna do it, but we got a feeling, he's the one, and here he comes in and and they're ready to go, and he comes in on a little colt, a baby donkey. If they're throwing everything, saying, Hosanna, they got the correct scripture. Here comes the one who's uh coming in the name of the Lord, he is blessed. But right after that, what does he do? Pastor Doris shared earlier, he went straight into the synagogue where the religious leaders and people had turned it into an Amway session. Okay, they were they were selling merchandise, there it was, they were they turned it into a what's that one? Prime Prime something. They turned it in, they're selling insurance, they're selling Amway, they're selling uh, you know, uh health foods, all right? Praise God. They're selling supplements, they're selling no, they're not selling all that stuff. What they were selling was you want to come in here, you gotta buy two turtle doves. You can't make it. You can't go to church unless you have two turtle doves. Oh, you didn't bring two turtle doves? That'll be 995, please. Thank you. Oh, you don't have a uh a bird? You don't have this, you don't have that? Well, we'll sell it to you. See? I remember something I learned in history in L in junior high history, okay? And I remember going through the California tour to Sacramento. You know who became rich during the gold rush? The not the miners, the miners weren't didn't become rich. They did all the work, not the ones that put all the track for the trains, they didn't get rich, they did all the work. You know who got rich? The ones who supplied the pickaxes, the shovels, and Levi Strauss. He provided the pants for them to wear, and he became a billionaire providing the pants for them to wear. And so who's gonna get rich in this? Not the people, the ones that are providing. You need turtle doves? What do you need? Oh, what else do you need? Oh, you need some of this, you need some of that, you need some, you need oh, you need a lamb. Oh, you got a lot of sin. You need a lamb. Okay, we'll get you a lamb. Okay. What do you need? You need a heifer? Oh, what how bad you how bad is your you need a heifer? What do you need? I mean, they start selling stuff for what? So that the people could worship according to the law. And that's how Jesus came and says, What are you doing? This is supposed to be my house of prayer. This should be open to everyone to come and pray, and you've turned it into a den of thieves. He didn't say you turned it into a Walmart, you turned it into a Costco. No. He called it a den of thieves. Why? Because they were actually cheating the people up in the price. Oh, you forgot to bring, you want to go to church today? Imagine if we stood outside here and said, Oh, do you got your tithe today? Oh no, do you got your album today? Okay, how much do you gonna how much you plan to give? 20? Okay, that'll be $25.99. What service charge? We're gonna charge you a service charge. You can't come in if you're gonna worship because you gotta have an offering. You gotta have an offering, you're gonna come in to church. So we'll how oh, we'll give you a loan, okay? You want to pay it in four payments? Okay, we'll make you a four-payment loan. And uh you yeah, you get a firm and you get four payments, and you can pay your tithe in the installments, okay? And then you can come in and worship. Now, that's what the devil wants to do. No, this is the house of God. No one's ever charged you to get in the door, no one's ever charged you for parking. Come on, praise God. No one's ever charged you to get out. Hallelujah. Freely you come in, freely you can go because you're here to worship God. So this is where Jesus went into the temple and he kicked them all out. The Bible says he got so mad that he made a what a whip? He was a carpenter. I didn't know he knew anything about whips, but he made one. And he went in there and he overthrew the tables. How heavy are the tables of that day. Tom, you work with wood. How heavy are the tables of the days of Christ? Come on. He had plastic tables like we got and aluminum legs. They were solid wood tables, and the Bible says, He turned them over. Oh, he upset. It's called Ryga. Righteous indignation. It's called a righteous anger. Because remember, the word of God says, be angry, but don't sin. So in all that he did, he didn't sin. He did not sin. I don't care how many tables he threw over, how many guys he chased out with the whip, how many might have even connected and hit their flesh. But he got them out without sinning. Because what was his agenda? What was his purpose? This is the house of prayer. This is my father's house. And you've turned it into a den of thieves. You've turned it into a multi-level marketing scheme. You've turned it into this. You've turned it into manipulation. You turned it into that. And kicked them out. The Bible says that immediately when that happened in Matthew chapter 21, the multitudes that followed him, they began to praise him, of course. And then he did that in the in the house of God. Verse 14 says, And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple and he healed them. The blind and the lame came to him in the temple and he healed him. You know, it's been said church is not for perfect people. Because if you think it's for perfect people, once you get there, it's not a church anymore, I guess, because you know you're imperfect. Okay? Church is like a hospital. If I venture to uh take a survey right now, I know you've got a bump, a bruise, an itch, a scratch, a pain, a crick. What do they call it? A crick in your neck, something going on, a pulled muscle. You're about to have a uh uh what you call it? Uh your muscle's gonna rise up real tight. What's that called? A cramp. You're about to have a cramp. If you need to stand up, praise God, hallelujah, drink some water. We got some in the back. Because that's humanity. That I remember back in the day, okay, 17, 1976, I was a senior. We were into running. I got my first job at that summer. Guess what I bought? I bought me some new balance of shoes. Just came out, new balance. Why? Because I was gonna run. So the guy who invented that became on the poster of Runner's World. I think his name was James Fix. He ends up dying a couple years later. Like, what? This guy's the world's most fittest guy. He's running marathons, he's jogging 26 miles a day. What's going on here? That's life. That's how we live. You may think you're the fittest, most fittest person. The only one I can realize in my day, Jack Lilane, he lived to be close to 100, if not closer. And he's like the fittest guy. But then you got George Burns. He's he lives to be over a hundred. And he says, How'd you do that? He says, Well, you know, uh, I laughed a lot. I smoked cigars every night and I drank whiskey. He lived to be over a hundred. Nobody knows how people live long. He laughed a lot, though. He was a comedian. But you know what? So I'm not trying to tell you anything but things you already know. All of us have problems, all of us have situations. And the house of God should be filled with all of us, amen. Coming and saying, Lord, this is where I can get help. This is where you can touch me. This is where you can heal me. This is where you can deliver me. This is where you can make me free. In your house is a house of prayer, amen. And that's what Jesus said. And as soon as they heard about it, they filled the house of God with sick people, lame people. Jesus was out and about. He was doing it out in the streets, he was doing it out in the fields. He came into the house of God, his first sermon in Luke chapter 4.18, you can read about it. He said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. He's anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance of the captives and recover sight to the blind, to preach all this good news to people and to declare to them that this is the year of the Lord. Say, this is my year. See, he said, This is your year. God's power is going to rest on your life. A year of jubilee. He's going to cancel debts. He's going to restore, he's going to repair. This is 2026, the year of the big fix. So God's about to do something. If he's not, he's already started in your life. But then Jesus got to go in the temple, cleaned it out so that he could do work in the temple. In the temple. The place of healing, the place of mercy, the place of forgiveness, the place of God's faithfulness was in that temple. And that, I believe, as we talked to Brother Oral Roberts years ago, we asked him, how can we get the manifestations of God's glory, healing power back in the church? Because that's where people got healed. I was reading recently about Amy Semple McPherson and the miracles. And she was one of the first big names in the United States of America that her name was and her church, uh, Angela Stemple was on the front page of the LA Times weekly. Weekly. Front page of the LA Times. People want to know what's going on in that place. I'm telling you right now, it's about to change again. They're not just going to be called houses of worship, they're going to be houses of miracles, houses of deliverance, houses of healing, houses of breakthrough, houses of restoration, houses of reparation. Hallelujah. Some of us want some reparation. Hallelujah. Houses of recompense and vengeance. The Lord, vengeance doesn't mean revenge, it means justice. God comes and says, Nope, I'm making things right right here. What was taken from you is going to be restored. What you're owed, you're going to get. Amen. Justice. That's vengeance. He said, The battle is mine, saith the Lord. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. I will repay. In other words, God's in charge of the reparation committee to repay you back for what the enemy stole from you. Anything stolen from you, raise your hand right now. Praise God. Everyone should lift their hand. He's had anything stole. And you go, if you don't want to admit nothing, guess what, you'll grow? You get nothing. Sorry, that's a hard word. But if you don't want to admit nothing, you don't get nothing. Because God can't heal what you don't reveal. God can't change what you don't admit is going in your life. If you have a need, think about the days of Jesus. That leper, he's locked in a colony. He couldn't come out, but he ran out of there. He escaped. Because he heard about Jesus. And he ran to Jesus in Matthew chapter 8. And he fell at Jesus' feet and he began to worship him and said, If you can, I know you can, but if you want to, you can make me whole. I know you can, but if you want to. Found Jesus a rabbi, quote unquote, who could actually say, No, you are supposed to be stoned right here. I'm not healing you. And Jesus said to him, when he said, I know you can, but I don't know if you will. And Jesus answered the question once and for all. I will. I am willing to heal you. Did you come through the right channels? No. Did you come in the right way? No. But I am willing to heal you because you came by faith. You wouldn't risk your life if you didn't believe that you had an opportunity, a chance to get healed. And he did. That was his act of faith, just to get in front of Jesus. Then he got on the floor and he worshiped him. And as I said last night in the table event, asking God for something is an act of worship. Because you have to humble yourself to ask. You have to humble yourself to ask. An act of worship. And Jesus said, I will heal you. And then what did he do? He touched him. You're not supposed to touch a leper. That stuff's contagious. That's Trinity. She went to the leper colony. She touched a leper. He's on this side of the cross. She's got divine protection. All right. She's like Jesus. She touched the leper. Praise God. She actually prayed for the lepers. Come on. They're still around today. I'm telling you today. Today is a day to celebrate the true king's return to Jerusalem and to his house to establish it as a house of prayer and allow miracles to happen in the house of God. All of this on that great Palm Sunday. Let's give the Lord a shot of praise. Praise God. Hallelujah.