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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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The Triumphal Entry and the Power of Praise 0:01 Welcome to the ALSC podcast. Here at ALSC, we seek the lost, teach the found, and send the disciples. We truly hope you are encouraged by this week's message.0:13 If I could do my job, it's just to compliment the story of what's been told already. Would you stand on your feet for the reading of God's word? And it goes like this that we've already been, ministered to already or0:24 talked about. On Palm Sunday, when they approached Jerusalem and came to Beth age at the Mount of Olives, Jesus then sent 2 disciples. Telling them to go into the0:35 village ahead, at once you will find a donkey tied there with her colt. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says to you, excuse me, if anyone0:48 says anything to you, say, the Lord needs them, and He will send them at once. This took place to, this took place so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled.1:00 Tell daughter Zion, see your king is coming to you gentle and mounted on a donkey and on a colt, the foal of a donkey. Then the disciples went and did just as Jesus directed1:12 them. They brought the donkey and the colt, and then they laid their clothes on them, and he sat on them. A very large crowd spread their clothes on the road. Others were cutting1:24 branches from the trees and spreading them on the road. Then the crowds who went ahead of him and those who follow shouted, let's say this word together, Hosanna to the son of1:36 David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Once again, in the highest of heaven. City was in an uproar saying, what?1:49 You may be seated. You know, I I can't describe, and you weren't there, the emotion of celebration, whether you wanna relate it to the rose parade held in2:01 Pasadena or the Mardi Gras in New Orleans or the Macy's parade that takes place. But there was an uproar that took place that day. A few years ago, I was2:13 in Mexico City, and I was invited to a preseason game that was being held with the San Diego Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs. I was in a the largest stadium in2:25 Mexico. It sat 120000 people. By now, they should have shown the pictures, but we did they show it? There we go. And so it was rumbling. It was roaring.2:37 You cannot imagine a hundred and 20000 people shouting as loud as they can, cheering for their team, and the stadium's rocking. I don't know if it resembled2:49 that, but I know it won't resemble when the Bible says he shall descend with a shout, the voice of the archangel, and the trumpet of God, and he will come back for his church. And at the marriage feast of the lamb, he3:00 will be crowned king of kings, and lord of lords, and we will shout forevermore. That's a celebration that I'm looking for. I may have not been there for the first 1, but I made my reservations.3:12 Has anybody already made their reservations for the next 1 that's gonna take place in heaven? 3 things as pastor Adam shared at the podcast that stood out to3:24 me. The Bible says in the scripture that he rode on a donkey. And I want you to imagine for a moment this donkey carrying Jesus and seeing the3:36 rows and rows of people with clothes that they've spread on the road, and their palm leaves swaying in the wind, and shouting at the top of their voice, Hosanna. Now the word3:48 Hosanna means please save us. Salvation is the word healing, wholeness, preservation, and safety. All of us need to be saved from our sins,3:59 but sometimes we need a healing, and sometimes we need preservation, and sometimes we need wholeness, and sometimes we need safety. So it's a broad word of salvation that Jesus offers. So they were4:11 shouting out Hosanna, please save us. But during this time in the old testament, that's what it would mean. But now it is a term of celebration. It's a term of adoration4:24 that they were giving. Can you imagine if that donkey thought that all those Hosannas were for himself rather than for Jesus? I wonder4:36 how many people think that all the accolades that you get are really for you rather than the Jesus who has gifted you, blessed you, talented you, and given you4:47 things. And if we start taking the glory, then you're probably not the donkey, but you're the a s s s. And maybe acting like 1 too. It'd be really4:59 foolish of that donkey to think that all that praise was for him. It was for the 1 that was on his back. The second thing I recognize from this story is the trek that took place. I don't know if you've ever5:11 been to Jerusalem, but we have and we will go again. But there's Mount Olives that's on a hill and then it descends into the Garden of Gethsemane and then you come through the Kidron5:23 Valley and then it ascends into the cities of Jerusalem. The eastern gate, the western gate, whatever gate you're gonna come through. And that was the 3 fourths quarter of a5:35 mile that Jesus would have trekked. Almost 1 mile on that donkey with his disciples around him to get to that point when he entered into Jerusalem where there may have been5:46 hundreds or thousands of people cheering at that time. If Jesus passed by me, what would I have been saying at that moment? Would I have been seeing him5:58 as the son of David, the King of Kings? Would I have seen him as, the heaven's highest? Or would I have been seeing him as a stranger? Or what is this all6:10 about? Or that last phrase, who is this? When he passed me by, would I have been awed and wowed? Far greater than I see any celebrity or superstar of this world, this6:22 is the king of kings or lord of lords. Or would I have went home disappointed by what I saw? The next thing I see is that when he rode upon that donkey into the city,6:34 he was fulfilling a prophecy, a bible scripture that was given nearly 500 years before Jesus was born. And if I was of Jewish6:46 descent, I know my Old Testament. I would have memorized and studied Zechariah 9 9 that says, rejoice greatly, oh daughter of Zion. Shout, oh daughter6:58 of Jerusalem. Behold, your King is coming to you. He is just having salvation. Oh my God, it's happening right now. Lowly riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of7:10 a donkey. It's being manifested now. It's coming to volition now. And God is a God that is faithful to His word, and He's looking for a people that this hour will put7:22 their trust in that word more than the trust of government, more than the trust of medicine, more than the trust of politics, education, or anyone else narrative of social media. Will I7:34 trust the word of God? Because the Bible says, heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall never pass away. I'm gonna trust God. I'm not gonna7:46 trust man. My faith is in what God promised because he has a record of keeping his word and bringing it to pass. That's what I would have felt there if I would7:57 truly believed in Jesus as a Jewish person. A 5 what are the odds of that prophecy coming to pass? Now, I wanna launch very quickly with8:09 the few moments I have in the 4 points today because the title of my message is who gets your Hosanna praise today? Where is your Hosanna praise directed toward8:21 today? Because you will be giving your Hosanna. You're crying out save me to someone. You're crying out celebration adoration to something today. Right. That's right. So it's not like I'm not doing it. You're doing it.8:32 You just may not be directed toward Christ. So who is gonna get your Hosanna praise today? The first point I want you to recognize is the fact that the devil is trying to steal and he's trying to8:44 sabotage your Hosanna praise. He wants it to go to any other thing, any other person, any other entity, event, or activity other than Jesus. And the world8:56 gets mad when you say that name. The world gets mad when you praise your God. The world says praise the devil, praise Mohammed, praise highly Krishna, praise9:08 Islam, praise every other religion of the world, but don't praise Christianity. Talk about sports, talk about athletic, talk about lust, talk about entertainment, but I'm offended when you talk about Jesus Christ9:20 as Lord and savior. I believe in this hour, I've seen it more than I've seen it ever before. The devil is trying to steal Christian praise today. He's trying9:32 to steal the praise out of your mouth, and he's gonna use every circumstance, every situation, every condition. He's gonna use every heartache, he's gonna use every false ambition, every lust, to get you9:44 to stop praising God. And I've seen so many Christians that were once praisers of God. They let their hands down, and the voice has been toned down, and tuned down, and shush, and shut up. And9:56 we're not praising God like we once did. Here's what the bible says when it talks about the what I'm talking about. So some of10:08 the Pharisees called to him from the crowd and says, teacher, rebuke your I basically tell them to shut up. Rebuke them. Shut up. Tone it down.10:21 It's not necessary. The problem is is that the devil knows the power of a Hosanna praise in our praise life, but do we really understand it? See, because it is your offensive game and it is your10:33 defensive game and you are vulnerable when you lose your arsenal of understanding what praise is really all about. The bible says in Psalms 8 2, the offensive game,10:44 praise silences the devil. When you praise God, you shut the mouth of the devil. Because the reality is this is once praise and worshiper called Lucifer cannot praise God10:56 ever again, and he's gonna ensure and do everything in his power through making your life with hardships and difficulties that you will not praise God since he can't praise God. And then the11:08 bible says put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. That's your defensive weapon to keep the heaviness of this world off of you. 2 times in the bible, the bible says send the tribe of Judah.11:20 Judah means praise. Send the tribe of Judah into war first before us. And when you're going into battle, send your praise. Through your battle, send your praise. After the battle, keep11:31 praising God. Send your Judah a praise when you're in a battle. Why? Because it's a weapon. And don't you shush and tune down and shut down your praise.11:43 I don't care what's going on in your life or the devil wins at the end of the day. Many many years ago, I was at a quakes game with a member of the church and,11:56 we were enjoying the game. But we're also enjoying conversations of sharing our faith, sharing scripture, sharing stories. We're just doing that. And how many of you know that sometimes you could12:08 get a little excited and your the voice your your tone of your voice can go up, and you almost forget where you're at because you're just talking like that, and that's the way it was going on. And a lady that was sitting12:18 directly in front of us, she turned around, she stood up, and then she turned around and she looked at me since I was the principal communicator. And she looked at me and she said, I want you to know that I paid my money12:28 to watch this Quake game, and I did not pay this money to hear you preach about Jesus. So I'd appreciate it if you begin to shh a little bit. Now, you know, I could have been guilty, so I didn't want to12:40 offend. I mean, maybe I was talking loud and wasn't, you know, and so so I I did tone it down. Didn't stop, but I did tone it down. Now, this is the hard thing to deal with because then after that ending was over, while12:52 the other ending was gonna take place, the little break that took place, she turned around again and she said, I want you to know that I'm a Christian too. I felt at that point to slap her and knock13:04 her out. You know it's 1 thing to not be a believer, a heathen and lost, and be offended by my praise. It's a whole another thing to say you're a Christian and know Jesus as the13:16 King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and not wanna praise Him. Or think it's not appropriate. And we live in a world right now, and especially if there's anybody that's young today,13:28 the world's gonna tell you tone it down, shut it off, and stop praising him. And you and I can't be intimidated or influenced by that. The second thing that I recognize about what13:40 happened that day was this, your Hosanna praise needs to be reckless abandonment that you give to him. There needs to be at some time in your life because the scripture13:52 tells us as it refers to this reckless abandonment, then as he was now drawing near to the descent of Mount Olives, the whole multitude disciples, they began to rejoice.14:04 They began to praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty things they had done. There was radical, reckless, unfiltered14:17 praise. And they didn't care who heard them, and they didn't care who saw them, and they didn't care what they look like. And I wanna challenge you today, maybe not all the time, but there ought to be some time14:29 where there is reckless abandonment When I give glory, honor, praise, adoration, exaltation, everything within me shows God that I love Him and I honor Him.14:41 Reckless abandonment. Well pastor, I appreciate that but you know, that's not my personality and I'm just very reserved. Well I saw you in front of In N Out the other day14:53 eating your hamburger, and I didn't see no reserved person as you were slapping that into your mouth and eating the chili fries or whatever you were eating. If I had hidden camera, I'd find some place in your re15:04 Reservation life where you are reckless. I saw you reckless on the freeway when someone threw you a half a peace sign.15:16 I heard you're reckless in in the bedroom when I don't know what you were doing in that bedroom. Come on, let's not all be so dignified in this place. We don't know what we're talking15:27 about. There ought to be some time in my life where I feel something. It's not fake. It's not phony. It's not copy. It's not ritualism. It's not sensationalism. I'm15:39 not trying to oppress you, I'm not trying to get your attention, but I am showing how much I love him and how worthy he is of my praise that I'll never have to experience hell, punishment,15:51 torment, or damnation. And his blood cleansed me and he has forgiven me of all my sins. That means something. Yeah. But if you and I have not learned how to die to self, you16:03 and I will have to struggle with that. And too many of us have not lost sight of ourselves. So I can't do that because other people will see me. I can't do that because I got a reputation to uphold. I can't do that16:15 because I got accolades, money, title, positions. I can't do that because I'll be embarrassment embarrassed. That's the problem. Yet this king in the old testament took off his crown and16:27 took off his robe and danced with all his might undignified for the Ark of the Covenant. His name was David. How much more? How much more? There needs to be a time16:39 when I don't care if I cry. I don't care if snot runs out of my nose. I don't care if I get on my knees. This God is worthy to be praised and I want him to know it. I just want him to know it. Undignified16:51 praise. Undignified praise. Several years ago, nearly, 41 years plus, I met this lady named Cindy Sue Smith.17:03 And we started dating. These are our premarital pictures. We started dating. And I was overwhelmed. I was captivated. I had reckless love for this girl. I17:16 I didn't care who saw me. You know, my friends would make fun of me. Man, man, you're too young. You don't play the field, man. Don't be showing all that emotion, you know, that I hear that, you know, kind of thing and17:27 you know what? And but but but I didn't care. And so, the reality was we both worked at the same place and she would start work at 8 o'clock and I'd start work at 9 30. But I wanna talk about how17:38 crazy I was for this girl, reckless abandonment. I'd show up about 10 minutes before 8 o'clock to sit in the car to watch her drive in with her 19 70 Chevy Malibu.17:50 And then I get out pretending like I accidentally, coincidentally bumped into her and was on my way into my into the my shift at the same time. And then she punched the clock and18:02 I'd say goodbye, and then I turn around and go back into my car and wait an hour and a half till my shift started. Crazy? Reckless? All for love.18:15 All for 3 minutes of her time to have a conversation. And yet I have no time for God in the busyness of my life. I18:27 wonder how many times it's God who's waiting in the car for just 3 minutes of your time to walk with you, to talk with you, to hear your hurts and your18:39 pains, but you don't got no time. You're too busy ripping and running. There's so much he could do for you and help you with, which is not just not made time.18:52 The third thing that I recognize very quickly is this, is that our Hosanna praise needs to be constant and consistent and continual. It cannot be just flaky19:04 and fickle and fruity. It's not this hit and miss, up and down, sometimes circumstantial kind of praise.19:16 The hosanna praise has gotta be the most consistent thing and the constant thing and the continual thing that you and I offer. The bible says this, in everything, give Him praise.19:29 In everything. When you're in a pit, when you're in a prison, when you're in a hospital bed, when you're in jail, when you're in bankruptcy court, when you're in divorce court, when you're in the doctor's office19:41 getting an evaluation, or a prognosis, or a diagnosis, when I lose my job, when the most difficult hard things come, and unexpected19:53 things, and unplanned for things, and unwanted things come in my life. That's the time that you need to praise God. Not when you got a pocket full of money and not when everything is going perfect in your life. Anybody20:05 could praise God. But when you're going through the most difficult, heartbreaking, I just lost my spouse moment of your life. Can I praise God through that? I lost my child, I lost somebody,20:17 my my whoever it is, your mom or whoever it is special to you. In everything, give Him praise. Can I do that? Yes. Let me talk to you20:29 about what happened in 2008. June will be nearly 16 years. I was diagnosed with cancer and I've never I don't I think probably have but I just can't remember. I'm gonna show you the actual report from the doctor. Here it20:41 is. It's going on the screen. His CAT scan show his CAT scan showed a complex complex cystic mass in the right kidney. Suspicious of neoplastic20:53 process cancer. Multiply lactic lesions were identified. I don't even know where these places are. It is t 9, t 10, l 1,21:05 l 3, and s 1 vertebrae. A bony pelvis all consisted with bony mass mastosis. His final pathology from surgery showed21:17 renal cell carcinoma, clear cell trait grade 4 with sarcoma toid features cancer. His diagnosed was stage 4 kidney cancer with an aggressive cell type21:29 that has a 5 year survival of less than 5 percent. Charles Mark Page, MD, diplomat American Board of Urology, Southern California Permanente Medical Group,21:41 Claremont, California. Let's talk about that because I didn't have a reason to praise God. I missed 5 services because I had my right kidney removed. Thereafter, I21:53 never missed a service. Did I feel good? No. Was I in pain? You better believe I was in pain. I just showed you what I was dealing with. When praise and worship came, I was22:05 exhausted for the chemo that was going through my body. They told me wear a mask, do not touch people. I had all these regulations, but you do whatever God tells you to22:17 do. But I wouldn't do it. I was given it for the glory of God and if I was gonna die and go to heaven, then I'd go my way, not someone else's way. But I wouldn't let anybody stop me nor let the devil stop me.22:29 And sometimes I'd be sitting, because my seat was right where Pastor Kenny is, and the praise and worship would go on. But I'd get myself up off that seat. And because it was somewhere where it hurt me a lot, I could22:39 only raise this arm to about this way. But you'd see me every Sunday like this, I wouldn't let the devil steal my praise, and I'd raise my arm. I don't care how much pain I was, and I'd worship God. And22:51 that's what you gotta do today sometimes. You gotta be consistent, and constant, and continuous with your faith, your promises, your confession, the word of God, rebuking the devil. Whatever you've got to23:03 do, you don't quit just because the going gets tough. You do it anyhow. And the last thing in closing was this, to have Hosanna praise, you have to23:15 have a revelation and knowledge and understanding of who he is. Because if not, he'll just be a stranger and he's not worthy of all that. I'll give that to the Raiders. I'll give that to the23:27 Lakers. I ain't giving that to Jesus. I'll give that to my spouse. I'll give that to my job. I'll give that to social media. I ain't giving all that to Jesus. It reflects you have no revelation then of who he23:39 is. Yeah. Those people said something for that moment. Whether they understood it or not, that's besides the point. They understood him as a as a king. And what does a king do? A king23:50 provides, a king protects, a king brings peace. What is a king? He's wise, he's compassionate, he's generous, he's courageous, he's majesty, he's royalty. That's what this24:02 king Jesus is, and He was worthy of being praised. The Bible says He's supreme. So there's nobody greater or higher or better than Jesus, He is it. And in24:14 the highest of heavens, it refers to He was the highest, the supreme. Then it refers to the heavens, which means He's eternal, eternity driven. He is the blesser in whom all blessings flow, and He's24:26 worthy to be praised. But if you don't have a revelation of who He is to you, then you will struggle to give Him Hosanna praise. I can't love your mom, I24:38 can't love your wife, I can't love your children the way you do. Why? Because you have a revelation, understanding and knowledge of who they are to you.24:50 And oftentimes, our praise reflects the level of how intimate he is to me, who he is in my life. So this phrase was in the bible. It says this from the crowd. It says, and he25:02 answered and said to them, I tell and some of it which 1 you wanna do? Let's do the other 1, please. The other one's the 1 that we want. And25:13 some of the Pharisees called to him from the crowd. See, I want you to know in in a crowd, there are all kinds of people. In this room, there's a crowd. On your job, there's a crowd. In the society, there's a25:25 crowd. Maybe even within your home, there's a crowd. And here, what the crowd looks like, all in our crowds are people like this. Sometimes there's spectators and25:37 watchers and gazers, neutral, confused, unknowing, unbelievers, suspicious, skeptics, critics, strangers, looking at Jesus as a mystery, enemies of Jesus, zealots,25:49 deceivers, calling him Beelzebub. And then in that crowd are the participants, the involved, the engaged, and the committed. So who are you in that crowd? Jesus asked them, who do men say that I26:01 am? And they looked at them and say, who do you say that I am? Who am I to you that's worthy of your life, your praise, walking away from your sin, walking away from your26:12 lifestyle? If I don't if you don't have a revelation of who I am, you'll never give that up. So I'd like to end with this because this last scripture says this. He Jesus says this in Luke. He says,26:24 and he answered and he said to them, I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out basically and and praise me. This is a26:36 rock. This is what he was saying. He's saying if you won't praise me, I will be praised. My creation will praise me. Because they understand what it took for me to26:48 make them. What what if this rock could praise him? What would this rock say? They say, I thank I thank you Lord for making me. I thank you for creating me. I thank you for molding me. I thank you for fashioning me. I27:00 thank you for using me. I thank you for setting me in my place. I thank you for my colors. I thank you for my shape. I thank you for my personality. A rock would do that. How much more would you be able to27:11 praise God and should praise God? So I'm gonna ask you to hold a beat right now.27:30 Ain't no rock, gonna cry in my place. Ain't no rock, gonna sing in my place. Ain't no rock,27:43 Gonna take my place, ain't no rock. Gonna dance in my place, ain't no rock. Gonna shout in my place, ain't no rock.27:55 Gonna bow in my place, Ain't no rock gonna lift its hands in my place. Ain't no rock worthy of praise. Come on, let's thank him today. Come28:07 on, let's give him the glory, the honor, and the praise today. He's worthy. He's worthy. He's worthy. He loves you. He died for you. He sacrificed. He28:19 was broken. He was bled for you. He was beaten for you. He's worthy. And I'm not gonna let the devil shut my praise28:30 up. As you're standing up today, I don't know where you are in that crowd. I don't know if you're a believer or an unbeliever. I don't know if you're suspicious, you're a28:42 doubter. I don't know where you are today in that crowd, but he knows. And just like 2000 years ago, he's passing right by you. And he28:54 sees you in this room with 2500 people and people outside of this auditorium. He sees you. He sees your name. He sees your29:06 Social Security. He sees the day that you were born. He sees every aspect of your life. He sees you. He sees you in your good days and your bad days. He sees you in your29:18 your insecurities and your low self esteem and your inadequate. He sees you today. Before he passed by, will you get his attention to say, look toward me now, Jesus.29:30 And Hosanna, save me. Save me. I need to be saved today because I'm not living the life that I should. Save me29:41 today from future judgments. Save me today from what's going to happen after I die and slip into eternity. Slave me, save me from the the29:53 hurts that make me drink too much. The pains that make me angry, oh God. Save me from what others have said that I can't seem to30:04 forget nor forgive. You might be the Peter in the earth. Save me God from denying you. You might be the Mary Magdalene. Save30:16 me from my past. Today, I don't know what you need to be saved from. But if you've never accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior, and let God30:28 take away your sins, then God has to let you pay for your sins. Or you say, I'm a Christian, but I'm not serving the Lord. God never left me, but I've left God.30:40 And I today wanna rededicate my life to the Lord. Come back. When I count to 3, I'm gonna ask you to raise your hand to be unashamed who who sees you today because all you care about is that he sees you in this30:52 crowd because he's passing by. Don't put it off. Don't say I'm not ready. I will preacher. But when I get ready, you're never ready. No 1 will ever be ready. As31:03 broken and empty and sinful, you could be the most wicked, nasty, perverted person. None of us qualifies for salvation. Jesus' blood qualifies us today.31:15 Yes. You raise your hand now. 1, 2, 3. Raise your hand all across this auditorium. Raise it up. Hands are going up all over the31:26 place. Keep your hands up. Say, dear Jesus. Say this with me. Jesus, here I am all by myself. Look at me31:39 and see me today. I repent. I ask you to be my Lord. I ask you to be my savior. Thank you for dying for my sins. Come and live in my heart31:51 and help me now to know who you are and to walk with you. In Jesus' name, amen.31:59 We really hope you enjoyed the message. And if you said yes to Jesus, we just wanna say congratulations and give you a free devotional to help you walk out your faith. 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