Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 806 | Jase Gets Sick for a Good Cause & the Donkey That Changed the World

Episode Date: December 21, 2023

Jase struggles with an illness as a result of his love of babies, and Phil wants nothing to do with it. Al had a chance to get up close and personal with a centuries-old symbol of power in Europe. The guys dive deeply into the symbolism associated with Jesus’ entrance into the city of Jerusalem on the back of a lowly donkey and what it means in relation to the prophecies surrounding Jesus.  In this episode: Luke 19, verses 28-44; Zechariah 9, verse 9; Psalm 118; Numbers 24, verse 15; Genesis 49, verses 10-11; 2 Peter 2, verse 15 https://philmerch.com — Get your “Unashamed” mugs, shirts, hats & hoodies! Own "The Blind: The True Story of the Robertson Family" on digital, DVD & Blu-ray today: https://theblindmovie.com/watch — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am unashamed. What about you? Jesus enters Jerusalem as king. And it says the king is, the king has come. I read your notes on it out. Mm-hmm. I didn't read the notes. I said them to. You not get email to?

I've been sick for two days. So does your email not work when you're sick? It works. It's just. It's basically just push a button. You sent a message to me the last 48 hours. I did. I didn't like that.

Nor did I respond. Well, we were supposed to record yesterday, but we pushed it to today. Just for our audience to know, not that it matters to them. Because Jason's been under the weather. So I finally finished this two-year run on this TV show. And like the day after we're done. Yeah. I get sick.

Yep. Because we had the little one now. It's known as the crash and burn, because you were burning it at both ends. You pushed yourself to the limit, and then you crashed. It's why in life you should never say, if I just make it at this point, then I'll rest.

Take it easy. Enjoy life. You should never do that. Missy told me one time, she said, I've been saying that for 30 years. If I can just make it to next week, And then that way, if I can just make it to next month, if I can make it to next year. So it's a trap.

You never want to. You never want to. Now when you got stuff going on, because you're right. I mean, we got a couple of irons in a fire. What happened is we kept a little boy that we've been, you know, acting like his godparents, I guess. And what he was, the symptoms he had, I now have. Yep. And guess what?

Guess who else has them right? now. Missy. Missy. She went down last night or yesterday. I guess it's been about 30. Kids, grandkids, godchildren, they are the incubus. They're the, they're the one, they're out there with the other kids. They bring it into your home and that's, that's where it comes from. Well, they have no sense of germs. Right. You know, they're half the meals that they eat, they drop them on the floor first, then eat them. just general hygiene,

you know, as an issue with them. So, yeah. Now, it ran through all my grandkids, too, which I have to say,

whatever this current bug is, it's a dozy because it affects people in different ways. But the one thing that it's been consistent is lethargic. I mean, tired, like exhausting. That's the one thing. My grandkids come,

now they're back at school. They come in, Jason, and they just lay down and sleep on the couch for two hours. Well, whoever saw that kid just, just lay down and take his own nap for two hours. You know, it just doesn't happen.

So anyway, yeah, we're here. We're doing it. There were notes. Chase didn't see them. No, but I got my own notes. He's got his own notes. What you got out of years when they were told in Matthew, Luke 19, after Jesus said this, he went up there to going up to Jerusalem.

He approached birthplace of Bethany of Hill called the Mount of Island. He said, he said, go up there. You'll find a coat tied there and down below there. When he came near the place where the road goes down to the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God and loud voices for all the miracles they had seen. Blessed is the king. Yep. Who comes in the name of the Lord.

And that's a quote from Psalm 118. And Jesus has on the coat that he rode up there on. So that's an interesting thing I hadn't thought about it. The NIV translates it cold, but pretty much everywhere else has donkey. Yeah. Or a foal. And it's interesting because on the last podcast or one of the last podcasts, I read Zachary 9, which this, this whole thing happening is a direct prophecy that's being revealed. So here's what Zachary said. It's really important because later I'm going to read Zachary 6 because all these things, Jesus did all these things. The reason he already had it lined up ahead of time was he knew that people would recognize

these passages. So it says in Zachary 9, rejoice greatly, daughter Zion, shout daughter Jerusalem, see your king comes to you. Now, this is several hundred years prior. This is being predicted. That meant something in that era, but he's also pointing ahead. And here's what's interesting. made this point, and Jason, I don't think I made this point when I read this text, because you were talking about the donkey maybe being symbolic of sort of the low nature of coming in versus

the big stallion, you know. Here's the way Zachariah described it, righteous and victorious and lowly. Yeah, that's where I got that from. Yeah. I mean, those three don't usually go to, those three words rarely go together where you think righteous, victorious, victorious, and And lowly. I think you really have to think about it, though. Look, think about who Jesus is. Because when you think how radical he is, and I've said this before, you're either all in or all out, which is very bold.

He didn't come here saying, you know, I want you to like me and respect me. And he's like, no, give up everything you have and follow me. That's right. There was no middle ground. So that's bold, but then he functioned gentle in that, you know, think of John 13. I mean, he's the leader. He's from heaven. He's the king of kings.

And what does he do before this epic death, barrel, and resurrection? He washes all the disciples' feet. Yeah. Well, you know, there's your donkey moment. Yeah. Because you would never think that this great. power who's going to establish a kingdom that's going to be eternal and crush all other kingdoms. Not that he's crushing them.

They're just being crushed when they try to take his own because of death. What was holding them together was all these miraculous events that's ongoing the whole time. It gets on those horse and they say, who in the world is that? Well, he got on a donkey. You wasn't on a horse. That's right. Yeah. Because a horse would have made more sense,

because that's every movie you've ever seen, every kingdom. Look, they would find the greatest horse. It's thinking about all the movies we've seen where they talk about the best horses. Oh. But the whole thing that's spurring them, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God and loud voices for all the, miracles they had seen. That's what's bringing these people and holding them as one group,

is these miraculous events. Then out of that, blessed, they had seen, blessed is a king who comes in the name of the Lord. He's on the, on the coat coming up, peace and heaven and glory to the highest. Blessed is the king. So some of the Pharisees and the crowd said to Jesus, rebuke your disciples, you know, they're not with it. But I'm just trying to put it all together here. Well, Jason is right. The idea was that this is a king, but it's not, it's not like any other king you've ever seen. And even the way he arrives is part of that. We were just in Austria last month. And in Vienna, which is the capital of Austria, at the, at the the palace. They still have a palace. Now, they don't have a king anymore, but they still got a palace.

It's beautiful. And Jason, that's what they keep at the palace. They keep their stables there, and they keep these Spanish special bred horses, and they're beautiful. I went and looked at the stables. We saw the horses. There's the most, the fanciest riding rink you ever saw in your life. They come out and they prance around. They do all these moves. They can jump up in the air. And this was the field behind that. Right. So the idea was these things, they've been doing these, they've been breeding them and then they've been like having these riders train for them for about 600 years. They've been following these horses.

And that's, the idea there is royalty, pageantry, beauty, power, you know, that's what's all about. And so I definitely think that was part of this whole idea was that this king was going to come in on a choice. And you mentioned that in Mindigo, Joe's, that, and I think that's what he's going to do later when it comes up about his authority. you have to choose to believe in who Jesus is. It's a simple choice.

And you either do or you don't. And so these religious leaders, they just couldn't buy into the humility, lowly part of this whole story. That's not what they wanted. That's why they kept looking for something bigger. And it is interesting that when he comes in, and Dad, you read that part about the praise that went out. That's another messianic psalm, quote from a psalm. in earlier in 118. And I want to read this because I want you to listen to how much Jesus is in this.

And this is Psalm 118. So again, way before, and starting in verse 14, it says, The Lord is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation. So now we're talking about something bigger than just being a king. We're talking about salvation. I mean, whether you're saved or not. Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the righteous.

The Lord's right hand has done mighty things. The Lord's right hand is lifted high. The Lord's right hand has done mighty things. We know that's representative of Jesus because he's at the right hand of the Father, right? I will not die but live and will proclaim what the Lord has done. The Lord has chastened me severely, but he's not giving me over to death. Open for me the gates of righteousness. I will enter and give thanks to the Lord.

Now this is the Psalm that the people were quoting as the king, is coming in. This is the gate of the Lord through which the righteous may enter. I will give you thanks for you answered me. You will become my salvation. Now listen to this one. You'll recognize this one. The stone the builders rejected

has become the capstone. Who's that talking about? I mean, that's the king. Well, the next chapter, chapter 20 and verse 17 of Luke says, Jesus said it is written. The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone.

So it's that same, and that's what the people are praising. So it's really interesting because so the people are getting it. In the moment, they're getting it. They're recognized. They're seeing it. Now, they don't have it for long because they're going to scatter. There's what's funny. To the people, the people who leapfrog over to the book of Revelation,

I don't know exactly what he's talking about. y'all but have to explain it to me but i think you do it's just been a while but jesus himself was about 30 years old when he began his ministry well if jesus was 30 years old and he died was buried and raised from the dead it's already been over a thousand years it's been 2,000 years 2,323 is the amount of time that has passed since these events, including riding in on the coat, since that was written. So if it was some kind of thousand-year reign, the kingdom was founded 2,000 years ago. We're reading about it. The king is riding in.

Yeah, but if you start taking parts of revelation, literal, and then start trying to do the math, Well, you're going to stay up most of the night for several. Yeah, it's a symbolic language, which is not that crazy to get the feel for, because it's the same thing. The point is it's been 2000 in 23 years. Yeah, but I'm just saying if you say it's 2000 and then you have a thousand year reign. Well, what if the thousand year reign was not a literal thousand years, but just symbolic? I mean, wouldn't it be fair to say that it's based on language in the Bible? And I'm talking about just generally when you hear the, when you hear and see the phrase a thousand years, it's used a lot.

And it's typically just saying this is a big period of time. All this is talking about is some time and big time. And it is. I mean, a thousand years is a long time. It's a millennium. But to then say, well, we got to lock it in to this particular number. I think you're right. I think you start going down a rabidow.

Let's take a break. Well, I mean, back to the donkey. So this was first previewed in actually Genesis 49, which I was kind of shocked about this. You can go look at said, the scepter will not, this is verse 10, will not depart from Judah nor the ruler's staff until he comes to whom it belongs. He will tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch. So he used both of them. And you read the Zachariah. But what I found funny is in Numbers 21, the most famous donkey.

Well, maybe outside of Sampson took the jawbone of a donkey. It killed a thousand men. It killed a thousand men. Speaking of a thousand. Was it exactly a thousand? It was a lot of men. A lot of men died at the hands of that jawbone. But, you know, when you think about it.

reading Zach, Zachari 9, which is the most famous prophecy that Jesus fulfilled by doing that. But it had, look, you got to remember, I was going to make this point. We kind of got the cart before the horse. Jesus is the one who orchestrated this. It's like, I mean, we're reading. He had it set up. I mean, like, he had people like. Yeah, he is the king and the marketing.

He orchestrated. He was the PR. I mean, we're, we go in these circles. down the street, take a left. There's some guys there. Tell him his time. Well, when you start. He's time for the donkey.

I mean, you know, like, this was all set. He orchestrated this whole thing because nobody else would have come up with this. And even now, 2,000 years later, we're still having trouble with it. We're like, well, maybe it wasn't a, maybe it wasn't a donkey. No, it was a donkey. Because if you see a general coming up, back then, horses were tanks. They didn't have tanks. So whatever horse you were on, as far as any kind of kingdom and war, that had a lot to do with who you were.

You're going to get the greatest horse in the world. The fastest, the biggest, the toughest. Jesus is like, no, I'm bringing a new kingdom and go down the street here. And he picked the place when it says that Beth Page and Bethany, well, you know who is from Bethany was Lazarus, Mary, and Mark. These were his people, and he knew them very well. And he had already set this up ahead of time. And these are the people hollering.

I mean, the only people that really are taking him seriously are these people. Because why? Because they saw these miracles. I mean, they saw a dead man come back to life. And everybody said, oh, it's a trick. Whatever they're saying, because they don't want to change their life. So he noticed a donkey there. Polly knew, got to know the man who owned it.

And he probably told him, look, There's going to come a day when I'm going to need that donkey. And so, because it was all around, it's too set up. He's like, go to the village. As you enter it, you'll find a colt tied there, you know, which no one has ever ridden, which is another thing. So he'd already tell somebody, look, don't, you keep this for me. I mean, there was instructions that went into this setup. It wasn't like this just happened one day.

I mean, Jesus had set all this up because, again, it was very important to fulfill that prophecy and to show exactly what he was trying to get across. Yeah. So I wrote this down. I'm not sure where I heard this from, but it was the sermon somewhere I heard because he was a different kind of king. In that, you know, I think when you think about, I wrote this statement, but I can't remember who said it. the power of love overcame the love of power in Jesus' kingdom.

So it wasn't that he's not powerful, but all these people that he's taken on, they all love power. And he ultimately showed God's power of love. And I wish I could give credit to wherever I heard that, but it just popped into my head. But I heard somebody say that one time, and I wrote it down.

But then you illustrate that with him being on a donkey because think about it when you're on a horse it you know one you you you sit up high and look it's a stallion it's a stadion every leader that's ever been especially in that world when he come prancing out on that horse and got three other horses behind him with flags and people playing music this is their triumphal entry and guess what they did it wherever they went and here's this guy standing on the biggest horse and the whole thing that's also the fastest he's saying look how powerful him it's an intimidation thing well when you just kind of have a record scratch moment and see jesus getting on a donkey that's never been ridden you know what that looked like he is hanging on for dear life i mean for some reason i think of every western that have ever seen i couldn't have a think of two mules for sisters there. I remember they had that little weird.

That's the first one that popped in. So I almost spent $5 last night because I started looking up movies about donkeys. And there's some new movie out, a Polish movie. At the end of the day, I couldn't spend $5 on the unknown. But the name of the movie was EO. EO. Eon. That was EO.

and it was about A donkey? It's about a donkey. And you said, why didn't you watch it? Because I was sick and I didn't feel like watching a movie about a donkey. And look, it's from Poland. So that's another thing.

I had to read the subtitle. When I was reading the reviews on it, they basically made a movie about a donkey. I don't know where they got this idea. But going around and meeting people. Now, the donkey never says a word, but he meets people. and you're like embarrassed that how bad people are.

And he's just an innocent donkey. That is the movie. They made one from Poland. Poles. Who does this? But I think they got that idea from the Bible. Because when you read this famous story in Numbers 21, and you say, well, what's that got to do with Jesus' or?

orchestrating this, you're going to see, look, even in that story in Numbers 22, which it's a long story, so we'll just have to pick up the highlight. This is the Talking Donkey. Well, yeah, he's the Talking Donkey, but what I didn't realize, Al, is there's a messianic prophecy in here. I noticed this last night. Yeah, Numbers 24, 15 through 19. Watch what it said. His, like, fourth Oracle, and we'll get in. We'll back. up and tell the story here in a minute. The Oracle of Balaam's son, let's see, I'm in 15 of 24 numbers. The Oracle one who hears the words of God, who has knowledge from the most high,

who sees a vision from the Almighty, verse 17. I'm not sure where it is, but I know it's in here somewhere. I see him, but not now. I behold him, but not near. Now, this is an Oracle vision from God, so stay with me. will come out of Jacob. There it is. Who's the star

that's going to come out of Jacob? A scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the forehead. Foreheads of Moab. The skulls of all the sons. Edom will be conquered. The enemy will be conquered. But Israel will grow strong.

A ruler will come out of Jacob and destroy the survivors of the city. Messian. It's talking about Jesus coming. Well, this is the guy. guy who had the encounter with this donkey so we can back up and see i think it's very interesting though so you may remember the story better than me but he basically in 22 uh this balak who is the king of moab he summons a what do you want to call him a magician he's a he's a he's a he's a he's a

I think it's called in here in verse seven, divination. Divination. Divination. Divination. Yeah, they can predict the future. And back in these days, you would have ones that were doing it for evil as well as some were from the almighty. So you're never quite sure who was funding the divination. So this guy, and this is a crazy story, but you can read it from chapter 22 and 24,

the king so the israelites are out wandering around these are guys chosen people and he's basically wanting to get them off his land yeah and so he's like well call down a curse on them because you're a you're into sorcery or sorceress i mean this is like lord the rings type yeah this is something from that like that that's right so a lot a lot of this makes makes people feel uncomfortable to read this in the Bible, but look, this is, there's some credence to this. This guy, no doubt about it. Had, uh, in, in any world, you see signs of that. And this is what's going on. There's a spiritual world out there. And you got to remember, there's two forces at work. So the evil one has always had influence into this, we call it the occult, but all, I mean, all that's real. Somehow a modern

society is kind of like, well, no, that's all just, you know, these people didn't know anything and make believe. No evil's been around for a long time. Yeah. It's still just as inexplicable today as it was back in that day. Well, it makes me think of a verse that says, you know, that one that says, even the demons believe in God and shudder. Well, and old Balaam here, he's like, now, I'll do this for a fee. You know, money, he's more, his God, it comes out of this story, is money. Money, that's right. He said, for a nominal fee, I'll work with you on this. But I'm not going to do anything contrary to God.

Whatever he says, I'll summon. He's basically working a sad hustle. Let's take the break. So this happens. You can read the whole story and get the context. But he basically goes back to this king and says, well, God said no. Well, that didn't go well.

And so then, you know, he goes back and finally God said, Well, I tell you what, you can go, but you can only do what I tell you. And it's kind of like God gave him, he wanted him just to say, no, I better not do this, you know. But he does it. Since God didn't say you can't go, he goes. So I'll pick it up in verse 21. So Balem got up, Balam got up in the morning. This is 22, 21 of numbers with the princess of Moab.

But God was very angry when he went. and the angel of the Lord stood in the road to oppose him. Balam was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the road into a field. Balam beat her to get her back on the road.

Then the angel of the Lord stood in an air of path. between two vineyards with walls on both sides. When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, she pressed close to the wall, crushing Balam's foot against it. So he beat her again. He's hot. He's like, what's wrong with this stupid donkey?

The angel of the Lord moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn to the right or the left. When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, she lay down under Balam, and he was angry, and he beat her with the staff. then the Lord opened the donkey's mouth, and she said to Balaam, what have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?

So this is a, you're talking about a record scratch. And that's why I wanted to go back and be this. And it had to have been in a female voice because she was a female donkey, I mean, which makes it even more amazing to me. So there's nothing I can say at this moment that's going to do. this justice. Because I've, you know, I listened to a couple of sermons of people who preached on this. But whatever you say, you know, you should have just stopped right then.

Because when that, when that donkey's mouth opened, yours should have closed as a human. But it didn't. No. I mean, you know, and you can talk about anger, you can talk about maybe been drinking. I don't know, because the next level of this makes people feel really uncomfortable, because he responds. He asks that this happens all the time. Because I'm just saying, when you're out in a muddy field talking to your donkey

and you think he's talking back to you, I'm pretty sure an adult beverage that a lot of them have been involved or a concussion. So, Bailab answered the donkey, if you've made a fool of me, if I had a sword in my hand, I'd kill you right now. now. The donkey said to Balaam, am I not your own donkey, which you have always written to this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you? No, he said, which is just no. Then the Lord opened Balaam's eyes. So the Lord opened the donkey's mouth and now he's open Bailom's eyes and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with his sword.

drawn so he bowed low and fell face down the angel of the lord asked him why have you beaten your donkey these three times i've come here to oppose you because your path has a reckless one before me the donkey saw me and so he basically explained and look i'll just skip to the to the point of why i'm reading this story is balaam had this happen he literally saw a miracle and and i think this goes with whole reason why we're all the way to Luke 19. He then has a prophecy that Jesus would ride on a donkey. This one out of Israel, this star, come on a donkey. And despite all that, Balaam never got it.

Because he's mentioned three other times in the New Testament as examples of don't do what he did. They agree. The three places he's mentioned is, to your point, point when you start talking about revelation, Phil, and I want to read that one, because we, it really, when you read the numbers 21 through 24, it doesn't complete the story. You think, oh, he gives this wonderful prophecy about Jesus, and he basically obeyed God. And he even repented, because he said I've sin.

He repented, but guess what he did? He just, instead of doing what God told him to do in the heart of it, he said, well, I'm not going to call down a curse on him, but he came up with it. another idea in Revelation 2 reveals this. Revelation what? Revelation 2 and I have this written down somewhere. Yeah. 14.

But before I read it, I just want to say, well, I'll read it and this will explain what happened. So to the church, this is the third church that he's right in here. He says, nevertheless, I have a few things against you. You have people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam who taught Ballet to entice the Israelites to sin by eating food sacrifice to idols and by committing sexually immorality. Likewise, you also, all right, and then he goes on to the next. Well, you see that later on in numbers. The king quit trying to get him to call down a curse

on them. They just, and what happened is what I just read in Revelation. So you kind of put the pieces together and realize Balim said, look, you don't have to call down a curse on them. All you got to do is go get a bunch of prostitutes. And you just need to change. You need an idol. They'll do it themselves.

And that's exactly what happened. And so you put all the pieces together by reading the other references. So like 2.15, he's in there against false teachers and destruction. He comes up again. 215 it says they have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of balaam

who loved the wages of wickedness but he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey a beast without speech who spoke with a man's voice and restrained the prophet's madness so then in the book of jude he's brought up again and this this really shares the heart of what he was all about in its verse 11 Jude 11 they have rushed for profit into balaam's era they have rushed for profit into balaam's era because he was all about making money yep so even god using him even him seeing an angel he had a conversation with god he was used to give an oracle that pointed to the Messiah. What was his problem?

He never recognized God as king of his life. Money was his primary motivation. And what I'm saying is, here we are, fast forward to Luke, Jesus coming on a donkey, and what we had just read, the problem with this parable, the 10 minutes was what? they didn't recognize the whole point of him saying is of him telling that parable is these people weren't recognizing Jesus as king verse 44 yeah so what we're getting to in the trial trifle entry in verse 44 it says well i'll tell you what where to phil read to where did he start reading 39 yeah so let's keep reading from 39 some of the

Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, teacher, rebuke your disciples. Why are they saying rebuke? Because they're saying, blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace and heaven and glory in the highest. So this goes about being publicly claiming that you're king. So the Pharisees said, this is dangerous. You better rebuke him. He's going to be a threat. Even though he's riding on a donkey and I'm sure look silly. that had to have looked silly. He says, I tell you, replied, if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out. Which people make jokes, you know, I'd have been the first rock concert, you know,

but it's really more about him saying, I've gone public here. And it's not the way you think. As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, if you even you had only known on this day what would bring you peace but now it is hidden from your eyes which goes back to what Al was reading earlier the days will come upon you

when your enemies will build an embankment against you encircle you hem you in on every side they will dash you to the ground you and the children within your walls and we know this happened in AD 70 they will know not leave one stone on another because you did not recognize the time of God's coming to you.

So it's just a pattern over and over and over. They're not recognizing Jesus as the son of God, as the king of kings. And you say, well, why? Because he's coming as a gentle king, as a lowly king. He's getting the people who are not powerful. He's hanging out with people that are shady. He has no money. He has no politics.

He has no house. He has no power. He's washing the disciples feet. I mean, that is the whole point here, in my opinion. No, I agree. Which is why the next thing he does, and the way Luke lays it out, is he goes into the temple. and, you know, basically cleans it out again. Pairs it up.

Showing that this is on the wrong track. Wrong track. And I want to read another Zachariah quote to you here, Jay's, because to bolster once again the whole idea about why Jesus came. This one's from Zechari 612. So Zachari says, tell him this is what the Lord Almighty says. Here is the man whose name is the branch. capital B. He will branch out from his place and build the temple of the Lord. It is he who will build the temple of the Lord. Now that's really interesting that whoever this is is talking about. So what

we look like, he will be clothed with majesty. There's the king and will sit and rule on his throne. And he will be a priest on his throne and there will be harmony between the two. So, not only will he be a king, but he will be a high priest, which of course Jesus is as well. Yep. Because you don't need sacrifice for sin anymore because he is the sacrifice for sin. So there's another direct quote. And when it says he's going to build the temple, what's he talking about there? Because we know the temple, he's been predicting it's going to be destroyed.

Well, he didn't physically build another temple or did he? when he came here and he himself established the temple, which would now be his body. How far the better, the better housing. And the one that can last forever, right? When you start thinking about a temple, when you think of the,

it goes back to Genesis, I mean, what is a temple? What was the purpose of the temple? It's where God and Earth met. That's right. They encountered God. Now, It was dangerous, and they would, you know, send a guy in there.

It was scary. You know, the high priest, and they'd have a string tied around his ankle. Because if he'd get struck down, they'd have to drag him out. There's nobody's going in after him. Nobody worthy. It was the temple of fear. Well, it was, but it was because, you know, we're the ones that messed up. But when you go back to the Genesis scene, it basically functioned as a temple.

You had God walking in the garden. was the temple. What was happening? God was dwelling with people. At that point, there's no sin, there's no separation. There's a oneness there.

Exactly right. So when you fast forward all the way to what Jesus is representing, he's making that right. God and people coming back together. You can use a fancy word, reconciling, or Paul uses that. I mean, that's what our English word is.

But that's what, and you know, no, it's interesting, Jay's. Let's take our last break. Luke lays it out. I think he's got an approach he's taking because then when we're going to pick up here, starting in chapter 20, is then what Jesus, what I call holds court in his as a king, because that he's going to do some teaching for the next two chapters. But John, which focuses on the last week of Jesus's life, he didn't give you all the background stuff like the other gospel writers.

You remember, he starts out in chapter two, with this scene of Jesus going into the temple and clearing it out because he's only given that last week of his life, which that's where we're entered now in the narrative. But why did John do that? Because John's whole book is about Jesus really is the son of God. And so he establishes him as an authority in the beginning of his letter. So I just thought it was interesting that Luke waits until the end to prove his case. But in both cases, they're saying the same thing. Jesus is the son of God. He is the king. He is the high priest. And he has authority, which is going to take us into the next section as well. But he's giving us these clues all along. Even going back to Luke 6,

you know, I used to think, because I was kind of blown away when we went through Luke 6. And it's like Luke's version of the sermon on the mount, what they call it, it's a sermon on the plain. But when he's talking about his kingdom coming, he says in verse 20 of Luke 6, looking at his disciples he said blessed are you who are poor for yours is the kingdom of god blessed are you who hunger now for you will be satisfied blessed are you who weep for you will laugh blessed are to you when men hate you when they exclude you when they insult you reject your name as evil because of the son of man rejoice in that day leap for joy because greatest reward in heaven well you know we we we always say, well, it's poor in spirit, you know, like Matthew says.

But I actually think he means at the least, to Matthew's point, you have to be poor in spirit and you've got a hunger and thirst for righteousness. You know, Matthew made it more spiritual. But Jesus, in Luke's version, it's the same idea of he's going to embrace the weak, that he's going to be willing to suffer. God's power is going to be made manifest because that's why I brought up that love idea in the power of God's love. And that's why it doesn't look like this earthly show of power and force. I mean, the whole book, you keep seeing him hanging around, people that we would say are not powerful.

This can't be an army. You're never, and they keep misunderstanding what they're going to do because they wanted him to crush Rome. That's as far as they were going. You remember even John the Baptist when he's in prison. I mean, John the Baptist was his cousin. He prepared the way for him. Kind of makes me think of, you know, Balik and Balim in Numbers. But John the Baptist, when he was in prison, he's like, go ask him.

if he's the one and we should expect somebody else. Because he's like, this plan is not working. I'm in prison. So, and we're going to hit that in the next chapter, you know, talking about John's baptism. But that just shows you, even John in that moment was saying, this doesn't seem right. Right.

Because how are we going to take over? And so, embarrassing as this is, you get all the way to Acts 1, and you remember the first question? Now, this is post-res resurrection. And they're like, are you now going to restore the kingdom to Israel? They're still not getting it. So when he makes this triumphal entry on a donkey that he orchestrated, there is no doubt that he was setting that tone that through weakness, through humility, we're going to take over the world. Because he actually did.

It did. And you fast forward now and read something like Romans. 121, it makes sense. Where products have it? Well, when you read Romans 121, you know, for years I had a problem as a Christian, understanding Romans 121 is like, as in view of God's mercy, offer yourselves as living sacrifices. Because I just kept thinking some kind of barbaric movie, you know, where I'm having to, you know, go kill myself and cut myself.

That's the way I was saying. I was like, why is it saying that? Because I wasn't getting this concept of what every day. hey, it's not my will but God, then I'm going to have to suffer. And the very reason I'm sick right now is because I had a baby that's not mine. And I was loving on him because he was feeling bad, you know, because guess what? I got sick. So don't be mad and angry about it.

I was doing, I was offering myself as a living sacrifice. And guess what? I got sick. Because I knew that if you're kissing on a sick baby, you're probably going to get sick. Oh, yeah, it's coming. To get over it. This is what we do. That's why I'm having a positive attitude about it.

So I wrote this down, I don't know why, but the crowd wanted Jesus' crowd wanted him to bring violence to Rome. That's what they wanted. Yep. But he received violence. The crowd was looking for an insurrection. And look, there was 12 others during Jesus' time period because they were all wanting to revolt. Yeah. Plus, if you see how the world works,

Chase, you pretty well are looking at it right here. It's just one thing after the other where they're trying to chase down or bad mouth the savior of the world and his people. Well, right. But I think a lot of people... You're not going to rule anything. To practically apply this, a lot of people are embarrassed that we just, you know, to be a Christian and they're like, you got talking donkeys.

and you got whales swallowing guys. It's crazy. You know, come on. Yeah, it's full of myths. That's fairy tale. But then all of a sudden, when you look at the big stuff

about creating the world and you realize that, you know, science can explain things, but it can't tell you why or tell you what you are to do because of it, you know. I mean, there's holes in that too, but my point is,

the big stuff, God created in it, we'll go along with that. God's sending Jesus, we'll go along with the Aves resurrected. Then all of a sudden you're like, well, I mean, you know, there's a donkey talking. And here comes Jesus riding up on a donkey. When you start really thinking about the principle he was trying to get you to see, it's powerful. Here's someone with every power so much that you can't even describe. I mean, we're making people out of dust, making universes and galaxies, I mean, God.

And when he's coming in this kind of humility and loving, there's something that's awesome about this. I mean, don't get hung up on atoms and molecules. If you're the creator of the world, you've seen nothing yet. Talking donkey is nothing. Because we try to do the same thing Hollywood does and all their movies.

Every animal they got on there is talking. We don't think that's absurd. I do. I'm not going to watch a movie that Hollywood. If I want to see a talking donkey, I'll go read numbers 22. At least it has a spiritual application. It doesn't Shrek? The movie Shrek?

He's a talking dog? Where did they get that from? We know where they got. That's why I said they made a donkey in Poland, a movie about a donkey in Poland, that sees how bad humans are. Well, duh, I could have made that. I could have told you that, you know,

because they're saying the donkey, looks like the smartest person, you know, organism on the planet compared to humans. Well, and even in the story, it is interesting because it didn't say the Lord opened the donkey's eyes to see the angel of the Lord. He just saw him anyway, which I don't know what, you know, out of that text, there's been a lot of people that believe the animal world has more of a sensitivity to see things maybe that humans can't see. And I will say, sometimes, you know,

you'll have a dog next to you. And it seems like they're aware of something. And you're looking around. You're like, what are they, why are they reacting so strongly? So maybe there is a sensitive. That is a subplot to that with that angel there. Well, it's just like the story in Kings where the guy was like, show him Lord and he saw the angels. Yeah.

Because they thought they were outnumbered. Same thing. Yeah. But I wanted to say that these are my cheesy lines for preachers. the reason Jesus came on a donkey, not a horse. I said that one. The crowd wanted Jesus to bring violence, but he received violence for us.

The crowd was looking for insurrection, but Jesus delivered the resurrection for us. The crowd was looking for Roman bloodshed, and yet Jesus shed his own blood for all, Jew or Gentile. I mean, I wrote those down, because that's why he came on a donkey. It was the power, of his love in a humble way that he would offer himself for us.

That would make a good title to a sermon, The Resurrection over Insurrection. I like that. That's pretty good. I mean, I think that's what was going on. That's why they couldn't recognize it. Because an insurrection only lasts until the next insurrection. Until the leader died.

That's right. That's why I ask you why to go. It's one insurrection after the other. That's right. But the resurrection lives on. All right. So we're out of time. We've gotten to our new jumping off place now, which is good. Talk a little bit about that in overtime in the next podcast. If you want to join us, blazedtiv.com slash unashamed where it will be.

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