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0:00Mark 11:1
0:02As they approached Jerusalem at Bethage
0:05and Bethany near the Mount of Olives, he
0:08sent two of his disciples [music] and
0:10said to them, "Go into the village
0:12opposite you, and immediately as you
0:14enter it, you will find [music] a colt
0:16tied there, on which no one has yet ever
0:19sat. Untie it and bring it here." If
0:23anyone says to you, "Why are you doing
0:25this?" [music] You say the Lord has need
0:29of it and immediately [music] he will
0:31send it back here.
0:33They went away and found a colt tied at
0:35the door outside in the street and they
0:38untied it.
0:40Some of the bystanders were saying to
0:42them, "What are you doing untying the
0:44colt?"
0:46They spoke to them just as Jesus had
0:48told them, and they gave them
0:50permission.
0:52They brought the colt to Jesus and put
0:54their coats on it. And he sat on it. And
0:58many spread their coats [music] in the
1:00road, and others spread leafy branches
1:03which they had cut from the fields.
1:06Those who went in front and those who
1:08followed were shouting, "Hosana!
1:12Blessed is he who comes in the name of
1:14the Lord. Blessed is the coming kingdom
1:18of our father David. Hosanna.
1:22Now, this is clearly not a spontaneous
1:27moment. This is an orchestrated moment.
1:29Jesus knows [music] exactly what he's
1:32doing. He's going into Jerusalem. And
1:35he's been saying through the previous
1:36chapters that he's going there to be
1:38betrayed, to be tried, killed, and he's
1:42going [music] to rise on the third day.
1:45But he's also going to fulfill the hopes
1:48of the Davidic Messiah. So the last
1:51person to call him the son of David is
1:53Barardemus who cries out son of David
1:57which is like saying expected messianic
2:00savior.
2:01And here the people are doing the same
2:04thing. They're saying hosana which means
2:08save us now or save now. And they're
2:11saying, "Blessed is the coming kingdom
2:15of our father David. Hosana in the
2:18highest." They're thinking, "This is the
2:20moment." And it is true that the coming
2:24kingdom will happen in Jerusalem. And it
2:28is true that the conquering disarming
2:31moment where he takes the power away
2:33from his enemy, it will happen outside
2:36Jerusalem. But it's not going to happen
2:38in the way they expect. One of the
2:41things that's interesting is in
2:43fulfillment of Zechariah 9, he does not
2:46come in riding a horse with an
2:49entourage. They would have expected
2:51that. They would have expected uh the
2:54conqueror to come in galloping on this
2:56beautiful steed. Instead, he doesn't
2:59just choose a donkey. He chooses an
3:02unbroke cult, the full of a donkey
3:05that's never been ridden on before.
3:08And I guess the message in that is
3:11probably multi-layered,
3:13but he's saying, I'm not coming in the
3:18manner and preparation and forms you
3:20expect. I'm going to use
3:24um vessels, instruments, donkeys instead
3:28of horses and donkeys that have never
3:31been trained at that. And maybe that's
3:34indicative of the kind of people that
3:37are going to spread his message, the
3:39kind of people that are going to carry
3:41this incredible new good news to the
3:43world. Maybe they and their lack of
3:46education and their lack of training are
3:48kind of typified in this donkey. Of
3:52course, Zechariah says, "Behold, your
3:54king comes to you meek and lowly and
3:58riding on a donkey, the full of a
4:01donkey." So there's something of
4:03humility and loneliness that he's trying
4:05to communicate in this entry.
4:08Jesus entered Jerusalem and came into
4:10the temple and after looking around at
4:13everything, he left for Bethany with the
4:1612 since it was already late. So he
4:19comes in and the writer tells us that he
4:22looks around at everything and then he
4:25leaves.
4:26On the next day when they had left
4:29Bethany, he became hungry. So the next
4:32morning they're leaving Bethany and
4:34heading back to Jerusalem and he becomes
4:37hungry.
4:39Seeing at a distance a fig tree in leaf,
4:43he went to see if perhaps he would find
4:46anything on it. And when he came to it,
4:49he found nothing but leaves, for it was
4:52not the season for figs.
4:55He said to it, "May no one ever eat
4:59fruit from you again."
5:02And his disciples were listening.
5:05So this fig tree is not
5:10an example of bad temper before
5:12breakfast.
5:14This fig tree is symbolic
5:17of the religious system that he is in
5:21conflict with. from Isaiah and
5:24throughout Jesus's ministry, the fig
5:27tree is symbolic of the Jewish religious
5:30system.
5:32And we remember that when the religious
5:35Jews came to John the Baptist to be
5:38baptized like the rest of Judea, John
5:41said something very specific to them. He
5:43said, "You brood of vipers, who warned
5:46you to flee the wrath to come? go and
5:49bear fruits in keeping with your
5:52repentance and then come back and I can
5:56baptize you. But he says if not the axe
5:59is laid at the root of the tree and
6:02every tree that does not bear fruit is
6:03going to be cut down and thrown into the
6:06fire. So we have to remember that the
6:09religious Jews came to John and said,"I
6:13want to be baptized." And John said,
6:15"Okay, if you want to be baptized, you
6:17need to do something first. You need to
6:20bear fruits in keeping with that
6:22repentance that's supposedly happening
6:24in your life." And they went away, but
6:27they never came back. They never came
6:29back and said, "John, we bore the
6:31fruits. Here's what's changed in our
6:34life."
6:36They just went away and never came back.
6:38So now Jesus is coming to the temple.
6:40John has been dead for a while. But this
6:43is going to be another moment where
6:46these same religious powers are going to
6:48be tested by God. And what's going to be
6:51revealed is whether they have come to
6:52repentance.
6:54And repentance means the dethroning or
6:57the uprooting of self-will that has
7:00taken the place of God's authority in
7:02our lives. So the fruit of repentance
7:05would be the recognition of God's
7:07authority to say I am a sheep. I hear
7:10his voice. I know his voice and I accept
7:13his authority in my life. The evidence
7:16that the repentance has not occurred
7:18would be if they don't know his
7:20authority, they don't know his name, his
7:22voice, then they're not his. It's
7:25because their authority has eclipsed
7:28God's.
7:30Then they came to Jerusalem. So, so when
7:33he comes to the fig tree, what he sees
7:35is appearances. He doesn't see
7:37substance. He doesn't see life. He just
7:40sees leaves,
7:42lots of leaves, lots of good, healthy
7:45looking appearances. But there's no
7:47actual nutrients of God's grace coming
7:51from that tree. Then they came to
7:53Jerusalem and he entered the temple and
7:56began to drive out
7:59those who were buying and selling in the
8:03temple and overturned the tables of the
8:06money changers and the seats of those
8:09who were selling doves.
8:12And he would not permit anyone to carry
8:15merchandise through the temple. And he
8:17began to teach and say to them, "Is it
8:20not written, my house shall be called a
8:23house of prayer for all the nations? You
8:26have made it a robber's den."
8:29This is
8:31a shocking display because we have this
8:34juxtiposition.
8:36When Jesus enters
8:39the arena of political expectation, he's
8:42riding a donkey. He's meek and lowly.
8:47He's humble. He's on a cult. It just
8:51does not feel like a political
8:54triumphal entry, right? They're saying,
8:57"Hosana." But when he comes into the
8:59sanctuary that represents the spiritual
9:02realm of God, he behaves very
9:05differently. This is intense. It says
9:08that he comes in and he begins to drive
9:12out those who are buying and selling in
9:16the temple. And he's not just chasing
9:18them out of the temple. He's grabbing
9:20the tables and flipping them over. He's
9:24grabbing the chairs that they were
9:26sitting on and tossing them aside. This
9:29is anger. This is indignation.
9:33This is disgust.
9:35This is a kind of cleansing that
9:38suggests authority,
9:41that suggests he has a right to be here
9:44and fix what's wrong.
9:47When he does this, verse 18, the chief
9:50priests and the scribes heard this, you
9:54think, and began seeking how to destroy
9:58him.
9:59So when they see him behaving like this
10:01in the temple, they want to destroy him.
10:05They are furious
10:08for they were afraid of him.
10:12For the whole crowd was astonished at
10:15his teaching. H
10:19he is angry that the church has become
10:23all about money. He is disgusted that
10:28the message
10:30of communion with God in the temple has
10:33become merchandise
10:35and moneymaking and selling and buying
10:39and changing money.
10:42When evening came, [clears throat] they
10:44would go out of the city. As they were
10:47passing by in the morning, they saw the
10:49fig tree withered from the roots up.
10:54Being reminded, Peter said to him,
10:56"Rabbi, look, the fig tree which you
10:59cursed has withered." And Jesus
11:02answered, saying to him, "Have faith in
11:04God."
11:07Truly, I say to you, whoever says to
11:10this mountain, "Be [clears throat] taken
11:12up and cast into the sea," and does not
11:15doubt in his heart, but believes that
11:17what he says is going to happen, it will
11:19be granted him. Therefore, I say to you,
11:21all things for which you pray and ask,
11:23believe that you have received them, and
11:25they will be granted to you.
11:28Whenever you stand praying, forgive if
11:30you have anything against anyone, so
11:33that your father who is in heaven will
11:34also forgive you your transgressions.
11:37But if you do not forgive, neither will
11:39your father who is in heaven forgive
11:41your transgressions.
11:43So in the morning, he curses the fig
11:46tree. The fig tree represents the Jewish
11:50religious system that knows how to keep
11:52up appearances but does not know how to
11:55give grace. And one of the graces that
11:58it does not know how to give is
11:59forgiveness.
12:01One of the graces that it does not know
12:02how to give is healing. [clears throat]
12:05Is help to the needy. In the other
12:07gospels it says that he chased out the
12:09money changers and he welcomed in the
12:11blind and the children and the cripples.
12:14They don't know how to give help to the
12:16broken.
12:18So when they pass by the fig tree, they
12:21see that it is already withered the next
12:22morning. And Peter's astonished and he
12:25points it out to Jesus. And Jesus says,
12:26"Have faith in God."
12:29because it's going to take faith for
12:32Peter and the apostles to look at the
12:36mountain of this temple pride, the
12:39mountain of this religious system and
12:42believe that they can do God's will in
12:44spite of it. And he's saying, you're
12:47going to speak words to this fig tree.
12:50You're going to speak words to this
12:52religious system built on appearances,
12:54and it's going to dissolve. It's going
12:56to wither by the next morning. You're
12:59going to speak words to this mountain of
13:02religious pride. Not any old mountain.
13:04This mountain. This mountain of the
13:07temple and its rebellion against God. It
13:10looks so impossible to you. It looks so
13:13powerful to you. It looks so permanent.
13:15It's going to crucify me. It's going to
13:18scourge you. It's going to challenge
13:19you. But you're going to speak words to
13:22the man at the gate beautiful that are
13:24going to bring real fruit, that are
13:25going to bring real grace. You're going
13:27to speak words that are going to bring
13:29forgiveness.
13:30And this mountain that seems like it's
13:32going to be here forever, it's going to
13:34be thrown into the sea. It's going to be
13:36scattered among the Gentiles. It's going
13:39to be nowhere to be found. Not one stone
13:41is going to be left upon another.
13:43>> [snorts]
13:43>> All of this is metaphorical of the kind
13:46of faith he wants to give his disciples
13:49to move in the power of the spirit to
13:52speak the word of God even in the face
13:54of a system that looks so powerful.
13:59They came again to Jerusalem. And as he
14:01was walking in the temple, the chief
14:04priests and scribes and elders came to
14:06him and began saying to him, "By what
14:10authority are you doing these things? Or
14:13who gave you this authority to do these
14:16things?"
14:18And the the tacit accusation is we
14:23didn't give you this authority. So where
14:25did you get it?
14:28what is the source of your authority
14:29because we're the ones in charge and we
14:33don't approve what you're doing.
14:37And Jesus said to them, I will ask you
14:41one question
14:44and you answer me and then I will tell
14:48you by what authority I do these things.
14:52So, this question is going to get to the
14:55heart of the problem. It's going to
14:58reveal why there's no fruit. And here's
15:02the question.
15:04Was the baptism of John from heaven or
15:08from men? Answer me.
15:13Now, he's basically saying to them, you
15:16went out asking for baptism. John told
15:19you you needed to walk out repentance
15:21and bear fruit in keeping with
15:23repentance and you never got baptized.
15:27So, let's go ahead and settle the
15:28question.
15:30Was that baptism you sought from God or
15:32from man?
15:35Because if it had been from God, then
15:38you should have gone and borne the
15:39fruits in keeping with the repentance.
15:41But if it was from man, why did you seek
15:44it?
15:47Answer me. He says,
15:50they began reasoning among themselves.
15:53This isn't a matter of truth or
15:55falsehood. This isn't a matter of God or
15:58man. This is a matter of what we can
16:00debate, what we can argue against. They
16:03begin reasoning among themselves,
16:05saying, "If we say from heaven, he will
16:08say, then why did you not believe him?
16:13But shall we say from men?" They were
16:16afraid of the people for everyone
16:18considered John to have been a real
16:20prophet.
16:22You see, the very fact that they don't
16:25know where his authority is from, the
16:28very fact that they don't recognize
16:31who sent him to clean the temple, that
16:34is the evidence to him that they haven't
16:36come to repentance. So, as soon as they
16:39say, "We don't know what authority this
16:41is," he's like, "You [music] haven't
16:42come to repentance."
16:44Let's talk about that baptism you wanted
16:46all those years ago.
16:49They're dishonest. Answering Jesus, they
16:52said, "We do not know."
16:56Did they not know? No, they did know.
17:00They just didn't want to own it. And
17:02Jesus said to them, "Nor will I tell you
17:06by what authority I do these things."
17:08Notice he does not say, "I don't know
17:10either."
17:12He says, "You're just not telling me.
17:14You have an opinion. You either think
17:16it's from man or you think it's from
17:18God, but you're not saying it. So, I'm
17:20[music] not going to commit either. I'm
17:21not going to tell you." Because if you
17:23can't recognize
17:25that you're already walking in
17:27disobedience to something [music] you
17:29thought was from God, then there's no
17:32point in me telling you this is from
17:33God, cuz you're already in disobedience.
17:36You're not going to accept [music] more.

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