WEBVTT 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:01.120 Amen. 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:02.319 Please be seated. 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:14.000 You know, Miss Natalie likes to uh point out when I do something different and take her off track. 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:18.399 And she said I changed the sermon, and in truth, I had. 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:24.320 But if you were here last week, her children's time was last week's sermon. 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:33.039 Um, so someone wasn't paying attention uh or listening to me last week uh because she missed it, but she was in with your kids and taking care of your kids. 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:35.039 But last week we started this This is the day. 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:39.920 It's our new series on Psalm 118, the very middle, as she pointed out, that's really cool trivia. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:42.320 I don't know if all of you knew that or not, of the Bible. 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:43.359 Psalm 118. 00:00:43.439 --> 00:01:02.560 And it's the end of these so-called Egyptian Hillel Psalms, these songs of praise that people would sing and to shout about as you come into Jerusalem for the high holy days, for for the celebration of Passover, or maybe for Sukkot, which is actually coming up next month. 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:07.359 These celebrations where we celebrate all that God has done in our lives. 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:13.359 But I don't know, how many of you like after last did anybody have a bad week this past week? 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:14.560 Anybody? 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:16.719 A couple of people had bad weeks, yeah. 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:19.040 My week was a little off. 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.519 My week was a little, I don't I don't know, Sunday was not good for me. 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:23.920 Right? 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:32.079 What we talked about last week is one of the more famous lines in Psalm 118 is this is the day the Lord has made. 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:34.560 And I said, and I will rejoice and be glad in it. 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:34.879 Right? 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:36.079 I kept hammering that. 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:37.920 I don't know what storms are in your life. 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:39.760 Like I was going to Baptist on you, right? 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:42.879 Every now and then we got some waves coming over our boats. 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:45.040 But this is the day, yeah. 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:48.000 Ah, right? 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:49.359 I kept doing that. 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:51.599 And then I go home, and you know what happened? 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:55.920 I was Eeyore all day long. 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:56.400 Right? 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:58.159 You know who wants to hang around Eeyore? 00:01:58.719 --> 00:01:59.439 Nobody. 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:00.959 Nobody likes Eeyore. 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:02.239 We don't want to hang around Eeyore. 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:04.239 Eeyore bums us out, right? 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:09.039 But that's I just walked into it, and somebody in the room kept calling me out on it. 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:13.120 I'm not gonna name names, but it rhymes with Virginia. 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:17.039 And she's like, man, you're just being so odd. 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:20.080 I'm like, stop it! And she kept doing this. 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:21.840 This is the day. 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:26.159 Don't you hate when people use stuff that you've said against you? 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:28.319 She's like, you're not rejoicing. 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:29.680 You need to rejoice in it. 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:30.800 This is the day. 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:32.080 Rejoice like that. 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:32.879 And I'm like, shh. 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:35.759 You're just making me angrier. 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:46.159 But sometimes, here's the thing, and here's why I believe that it went this way, and here's why I kind of feel like I got into the Eeyore mode, is because I was doing it on my own. 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:52.319 And I started this whole this whole sermon series about this Psalm 118, and we talked about it. 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:53.680 This is the day the Lord has made. 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:55.919 I will rejoice and be glad in it. 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:00.000 I don't know what is going to come your way, but I will rejoice today. 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:03.919 But I was missing part of it. 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:05.199 Big part of it. 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:06.719 You know what I was missing? 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:08.159 Y'all. 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:11.919 That's Hebrew for you people. 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:14.639 I was missing y'all. 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:15.520 Because here's the deal, right? 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:16.159 We've talked about this. 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:24.639 Psalm 113 to 118, the Hillel Psalms, the songs of praise, where the people would rejoice and remember all that God had done. 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:25.120 Right? 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:31.360 When you come in, you celebrate Passover, you sing these songs, 113, 14, 15, 17, 18. 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:33.680 And you're celebrating the movement of God. 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:39.120 You remember when God reached into Egypt, said, Let my people go. 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:42.719 He took them out of slavery into freedom. 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:50.159 Every year at Passover, the people of Jerusalem, the Hebrews are required if they're able to go and to celebrate. 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:54.159 And Sukkot, the same deal as the Feast of Tabernacles. 00:03:54.319 --> 00:04:01.919 When they remember when they were in the wilderness, and time after time after time, God provided for them. 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:04.879 You celebrate these moments. 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:07.199 But they didn't do it alone. 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:10.240 They did it together. 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:13.120 But Psalm 118 is a very individualized, we talked about it. 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:15.199 It's the last of these Hillel Psalms. 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:20.000 And it's like there's this liturgical bent to it, like this liturgical rhythm. 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.439 There's very some personal language, some formal language. 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:37.600 There's one person who's kind of the main character, a king, if you will, who's demanding access to the altar, and who's granted access, and he's reminding God, the bees are swarming around me. 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:41.279 All this stuff's going on, but you, God, are my victory. 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:44.399 You, God, are my salvation. 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:46.160 That's what some translations will say. 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:48.399 You're my victory, my salvation. 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:53.279 But things shift. 00:04:54.240 --> 00:05:00.959 And Psalm 118 goes from this individualized kind of story to a group thing. 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:07.120 Because if we're all if we're all honest, it's better when we're together. 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:11.040 And in fact, that's how God designed us. 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:12.160 Was to be together. 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:14.639 That's why small groups are so important. 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:20.399 You ever, I know there, like this is a great time of year, isn't it? 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:28.319 It's it's the summer's over, fall, like tomorrow morning, you know it's gonna be 60 degrees in my house, because we turn the AC down. 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:29.439 Come on, yeah, you know? 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:34.800 It's fall, the Christmas in the air, but like sports seasons are starting. 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:38.240 Right, like some of you, not everybody's a hunter, but I'm a hunter. 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:39.759 I went out dove season. 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:44.319 It was the first time without my dad, but it was just so cool and special to be out there. 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:45.439 I love this time of year. 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:46.560 It's greatness. 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:48.240 All this stuff going on. 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:51.839 Serie A is three games in. 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:52.879 Anybody? 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:54.160 Anybody with me? 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:55.040 Really? 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:55.920 Football? 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:58.000 Any football fans in here? 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:00.160 No footbug. 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:01.519 Yeah. 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:04.000 Soccer is what you normal people call it. 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:04.319 Right? 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:06.399 Anybody, any soccer fans in the house? 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:09.199 Did anybody get into the World Cup this year? 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:10.560 Come on, America. 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:10.959 Yeah. 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:11.279 What? 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:12.480 You didn't support our boys? 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:17.600 Yeah, soccer is just, okay, it's not everybody's on board with soccer, but our family is. 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:20.800 For whatever reason, we kind of got into the World Cup this year. 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:23.920 And we got just excited about it, and Corbin got us excited. 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:28.399 We we got to go uh to a cousin's wedding in New York, and um, and there was a soccer store. 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:31.279 Corbin got a jersey, like, and it was just awesome. 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:31.759 It was great. 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:37.199 We were there when Brazil was playing the game, and we're walking through Times Square, and the Brazilians are just going nuts. 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:38.959 I'm like, we've got to leave right now. 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:41.040 Uh this is about to go down. 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:41.920 Like, let's go. 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:43.199 Uh it was just it was awesome. 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:44.000 It was so great. 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:48.160 Loved watching the matches and everything, and so we were trying to try to pick teams. 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:51.839 You know, and we're like, okay, well, what's a team after the World Cup ends? 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:54.160 Like, we want to get into this in the Premier League, right? 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:55.680 That's supposedly the greatest. 00:06:55.759 --> 00:07:00.639 And so we're trying to choose a team based on some of the players that we liked from the World Cup and stuff. 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:07.680 And, you know, there's Premier League teams, there's La Liga, if you're a La Liga fan, if you're a Real Madrid fan, something like that. 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:13.279 Then there's Serie A, which is the Italian version of the Premier League. 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:14.800 It's the top of the top. 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:21.759 And if you ever watched a soccer game, and just the excitement that comes around it. 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:27.040 Yesterday, it was college football apparently started. 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:29.519 I don't know. 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:31.360 I think we're taking the season off. 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:35.279 And so college game day on, and that's one of the that's one of the traditions of our family. 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:40.399 We love to wake up on Saturdays and we watch College Game Day and get excited for all the games that are coming, blah, blah, blah all that stuff. 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:44.319 And Jenna walks in to where I was watching, she goes, What are you doing? 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.120 And I was watching a soccer game, soccer match. 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:48.480 It was a Serie A team. 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:51.199 It was Napoli against Inter Milan. 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:52.480 Yeah, I know. 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:54.079 I know you want to know what happened. 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:55.040 I'll tell you in a second. 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:57.360 But just I was she goes, What are you doing watching this? 00:07:57.439 --> 00:07:59.759 I'm like, this is we have to watch this now. 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:00.720 It's amazing. 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:05.519 And the reason I tell you that, I'm gonna brag on my brother a little bit because I talk bad about him all the time. 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:07.040 He deserves it, but whatever. 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:09.519 Um, so my older brother is he was an attorney. 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.959 He went to a little school in Austin and became a lawyer, blah, blah, blah, whatever. 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:14.879 Um, and he hated being an attorney. 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:16.319 And he wanted to do something else. 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:21.759 So he got into uh serving the dark Lord Bean Caffeine. 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:23.439 He runs coffee shops. 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:26.480 Uh, anybody ever been to Summer Moon Coffee? 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:27.519 You should go there. 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:28.560 It's great, it's awesome. 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:32.720 When we have our new building, that's gonna be Summer Moon Coffee that is served in there. 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:36.399 My brother has all of the Summer Moon coffees here in San Antonio. 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:44.399 Um, and apparently, even though not everybody in this place has raised their hand, a lot more people in San Antonio know about it. 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:46.080 Um, because brother's killing it. 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:48.799 Like he made he made a good living as an attorney. 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:52.320 He is slaying it um serving you caffeine. 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:53.679 Um and just doing great. 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:54.720 And I'm super proud of him. 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:55.200 I really am. 00:08:55.279 --> 00:09:01.600 I'm so proud of the way that he's transitioned in the half part of his life and done everything and been so successful and great and awesome. 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:06.399 Um, but one of the things that it's allowed him to do, because he's way into soccer, very into it. 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:09.679 Um, and he's been following Premier League teams for a long time. 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:16.399 He was given this opportunity to buy into ownership of a team in Italy. 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:18.879 Um and he said yes. 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:23.600 And so he is now part owner of Forsenone. 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:26.159 For Sanoneone, there you go. 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:27.519 I've been practicing that all morning. 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:39.440 Um Forcenone, which is which was a Series B team when he bought into it, but then they went on a tear and got promoted, and now they're in the big boy league, Serie A. 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:46.559 So my brother is a part owner of a Serie A team, which by the way is already off to a fantastic start this season. 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:49.360 And so I told Jenna, why are we watching this? 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:51.360 Because this is our life now. 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:54.480 Like, like, we are all about Italian soccer. 00:09:54.720 --> 00:10:00.480 We are all in, and we're gonna celebrate when Forstanone wins, and we're gonna I'm getting a scarf. 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:02.240 You know, soccer people wear scarf. 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:04.639 I'm gonna start wearing scarfs and stuff and kits. 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:06.720 I'm gonna talk about my kit and things like that. 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:11.600 But one of the things I love about soccer is when they score a goal. 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:14.799 Like, have you ever watched a match, a soccer match? 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:17.200 It lets it can be boring, right? 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:18.720 There's a lot of running. 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:19.759 A lot of running. 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:22.080 And you know who has two thumbs and doesn't run? 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:23.200 This guy. 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:23.840 Uh yeah. 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:26.240 I'm like, so it's like there's a ton of running. 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:28.799 There's not a lot of scoring that happens. 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:34.879 A lot of times games end in nil-nil, which means zero zero for those of you who don't understand that, right? 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:37.759 And they have to go to extra time, whatever, and just all this stuff. 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:41.759 But when they score, watch out. 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:42.639 Right? 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:44.639 Because what happens when they score? 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:48.159 Well, that's what the announcer does. 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:50.000 Goal! That happened at 9.32. 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:51.440 I'm glad you're all with me. 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:53.120 They go nuts. 00:10:53.279 --> 00:11:00.399 The guy who scores the goal runs to the corner away from the rest of his team because they are trying to attack him. 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:00.960 Right? 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:09.519 The entire team runs after the guy who has scored the goal and just jumps on him, including everyone who's sitting on the bench. 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:16.960 All the subs, every the entire team, 20-something guys, run and jump on this guy, and they're celebrating it. 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:19.360 In the Premier League, they call it the Celly. 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:21.600 That's right, the Celly. 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:22.720 It's the Celly. 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:29.120 It's the moment where, look, the one guy scored the goal, but without the rest of the team, he wouldn't have. 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:33.519 And they all acknowledge that there is something tremendous that just happened. 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:42.799 It is better when we celebrate together, when something happens, when there is a big victory and the world changes, you celebrate those moments together. 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:56.879 When time bends and physics and rules no longer apply, and you get one more second to try one more play, and you illegally win the game, you still rush the field. 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:58.320 Come on, somebody. 00:11:58.480 --> 00:11:59.120 Yeah. 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:03.919 You still rush the field because victory happened. 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:06.399 Because it's meaningful. 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:08.720 And you celebrate together. 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:15.600 Psalm 118 takes it from an individual sport into a celly. 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:27.120 It takes it from this beautiful, powerful language of calling out to God and crying out for God to move to verse 24. 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:35.679 Now look, verse 24 was a verse that I used a lot last week, but I changed it. 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:38.080 One word of it. 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:44.159 Verse 24 says, This is the day the Lord has made. 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:46.559 And this is what I said. 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:50.720 I will rejoice and be glad in it. 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:52.960 What does the verse really say? 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:54.799 We. 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:57.919 This is the day the Lord has made. 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:01.360 We will rejoice and be glad in it. 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:03.200 We will rejoice and be glad in it. 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:10.480 This is the day the Lord has made, so let us all come together in the corner and jump on one another because God created this day for us. 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:13.039 This is the day the Lord has made. 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:15.120 We will rejoice and be glad in it. 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:17.279 Please, Lord, it goes on verse 25. 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:18.720 Please save us. 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:20.799 Hosanna, it says. 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:22.000 Please, Lord. 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.559 Please give us success. 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:27.919 Bless the one who comes in the name of the Lord. 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:29.600 We bless you. 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:32.639 The house of the Lord. 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:37.440 It changes from an individual sport to a team sport. 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:41.440 It changes everything because of how they celebrate. 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:46.320 Because we weren't ever meant to go through this life individually. 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:47.600 But together. 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:49.120 And yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:52.320 Your individual relationship with Jesus matters. 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:57.919 And if we go back to the last series, all in, you need to pour into your relationship with Jesus. 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:01.200 But we can't do it all the time alone. 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:05.919 And when something tremendous happens, we need to have the celly. 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:10.879 We need to run to the corner and celebrate with one another and say, God is good. 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:12.639 This is the day the Lord has made. 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:18.000 Let us rejoice and be glad in it. 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:22.799 There's so much power when we do this together. 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:25.840 Remember the people of Israel right here, right? 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:29.039 They are remembering what God had done. 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:29.440 Right? 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:41.919 So this is remembering when God reached into Egypt and brought 400 years of identity as slaves and said, that's not who you are, and brings them into freedom and begins to shape them as sons and daughters. 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:44.720 The people who were celebrating this didn't go through it. 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:47.840 The people who were singing these songs didn't experience it. 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:48.799 It was history. 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:54.399 And for the Hebraic mind, history is memory and all that stuff, but but it still wasn't them. 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:59.039 And yet they were celebrating as if it was. 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:01.919 But do you hear the words there? 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:11.919 If you have a Bible and some of you, if you have your Bible open and you read right next to verse 26, there's a footnote that says John 12, 13. 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:27.039 And the reason that's there is because when Jesus, this is the triumphal entry passage in John, when Jesus comes into Jerusalem for the last time, the triumphal entry, as we call it, right? 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:28.159 He's coming in to celebrate. 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:30.000 What does he come in to celebrate? 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:31.279 Passover. 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:32.480 It's a holy day. 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:37.679 And if it's a holy day and people are coming into the city to celebrate, what are they doing? 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:39.840 They're singing these songs. 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:42.799 113, 114, 15, 16, 17, 8. 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:46.240 They're singing these halel praises, these songs of praise. 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:49.120 These words are on their lips. 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:51.440 And listen to what they say. 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:54.879 Please, Lord, please save us. 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:01.759 Remember when Jesus comes into Jerusalem? 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:03.519 What are the people shouting? 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:05.039 Hosanna. 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:06.879 Hosanna. 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:08.480 Oh Shanah. 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:10.559 Hoshnah, save us. 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:12.320 God, save us. 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:12.960 God. 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:17.279 And the people of Psalm 118 are saying, you did. 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:27.919 They're remembering the moment when God reached into the most powerful force of the world at the time and said, You don't have control over my people. 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:30.159 They are my sons and daughters. 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:33.519 And he removes them from slavery and puts them into freedom. 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:39.919 But we, oh, we got a different celebration going on, don't we? 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:46.799 Because what the people of the triumphal entry were hoping for is what we know happened. 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.399 That Jesus went to the cross. 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:53.759 He was buried in the tomb. 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:57.679 But on the third day, he rose again. 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:04.079 See, they were celebrating the fact that God once moved and brought them into freedom out of captivity. 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:13.839 We celebrate the fact that God moved and conquered death and brings us life. 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:16.720 That's a celebration. 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:19.359 That is something to shout about. 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:28.160 That is something to run into the corner and jump up and down on one another and say, You too! He died for you too. 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:32.000 He died for us all. 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:39.440 You know, the church has passed down many things and many traditions over the years. 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:48.240 Two of them we call sacraments, where we believe that God's presence and movement is just a little different than at other times. 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:54.880 And one of them comes from right after that triumphal entry when Jesus walks into Jerusalem, right? 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:56.640 Because they go to the upper room. 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:09.279 And you know these guys had grown up, these disciples had grown up singing these psalms and knowing them and just knowing the stories and all that, that God would one day bring Hosherah, save us, bring freedom into the people. 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:22.319 And Jesus, he takes that moment to do the Seder meal, what we call the Last Supper, this telling of the story that they had done year after year after year, remembering when God moved and brought salvation. 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:24.720 You are my victory, you are my salvation. 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:28.319 And Jesus says, but I'm gonna change the narrative a little bit. 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:31.200 I'm gonna change. 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:34.720 Because this is this is my body. 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:37.440 This is my blood. 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:44.400 And I give this so that you might have life. 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:52.319 You know, oftentimes we come to this table with solemn reverence, and that's right. 00:18:52.799 --> 00:19:00.640 We should approach this table in a reverential manner and understanding what sacrifice and gift is being offered to us. 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:07.359 But too often, I think, out of the sense of reverence, we miss the moment of celebration that it truly is. 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:15.759 We miss the moment that we get to celebrate all that God has done through the life, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:20.880 The people who are shouting out and crying for the day when God would truly save them. 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:22.960 We live in that day. 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:26.880 And that gift is available to all of us. 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:39.359 So when we come to this table this morning, you do you, but can I can I invite you to celebrate a little? 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:57.759 Can I invite you to have a heart full of joy, full of the sense that Jesus died for y'all, and that his life, death, and resurrection are right here and available to you. 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:03.839 If you've known it for the length of your life, that is great and wonderful, and it's another time to celebrate all that God has done. 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:11.839 But maybe today is the first time you come to the table and truly celebrate the gift that is this moment. 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:16.079 Let us celebrate. 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:22.000 Gracious and heavenly Father, we thank you and praise you for the ways that you move in our life. 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:25.680 God, we thank you so much that you were a God who saved us. 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:30.799 You didn't leave us out to languish in the death of this world. 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:33.599 But you said, not my children. 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:43.119 And you gave your son, who lived his life, who died our death, but conquered it, so that we might have life. 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:46.079 God, we thank you and praise you for that gift. 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:49.759 We thank you for that moment when you gave us life. 00:20:49.920 --> 00:21:02.480 We pray that through the power of the Holy Spirit that you would make this be the body broken for us and the blood poured out for the forgiveness of sins. 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:06.880 As often as we come, we do so in remembrance of you. 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:13.519 And Father, we join our voices this morning and pray the prayer that your Son taught us. 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:16.480 Our Father, who art in heaven. 00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:18.319 Hallowed be thy name. 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:23.519 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:35.839 Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:40.000 For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:40.640 Amen. 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:44.960 If you would continue in an attitude of prayer and those who are assisting with communion, if you would come forward at this time.