Judges: The Last Call

Okay. All we gotta do Jesus. Jesus. All you gotta do is we'll worship you. But you see Caesar? Can you go defeat them? Can you come in on a white horse instead of a donkey? That's what they wanted. Jesus came in under a different motive. Hosanna, king Jesus offered a different way. Humility, repentance, and a cross. Think through that. [01:10:19] (31 seconds)  #HosannaHumility

We pick people we pick to follow people who are flawed, who are broken, and we look to them to be our savior. But we got a savior who doesn't look like we want him to look. This is the story. This is how it continues. Then in those days, there were kings and everyone followed the king's evil ways. But there's hope. Right? There's hope. Right? One king comes riding in on a donkey. There's hope. There is hope. [01:08:10] (31 seconds)  #UnexpectedSavior

is taken by carrying the cross with you. Right? Whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. Palm Sunday, it shows the arrival of the true king, not on the white horse, not on the valiant warrior looking to to eradicate the Roman Empire, but on the suffering servant. The one Isaiah prophesized about. Right? Belinda, the one he spoke about in chapter 53, the one who was disfigured and deformed and dirty, he took our sins so that we could be with him forever. [01:15:01] (39 seconds)  #SufferingServant

Will you follow the king when he doesn't do what you want him to do? Yes. It is easy to follow him when he does what you want him to do. Right? Isn't that what Judges was about? Oh, he rescued us. We can follow him because he did what we wanted him to do. He rescued us. Woo hoo. And what did the rest of the cycle said? They forgot. Will you will you follow Jesus when it's not easy? [01:11:25] (24 seconds)  #FollowWhenHard

but to do the will of him who sent me. That is the picture that we need to follow. The king willing to do what the father has told him to do. We need to be people who do what the father tells us to do. Don't just say, hallelujah to the king of kings. Live as if you're being ruled by the king. That is really, really the application to this point. How are you living? [01:13:18] (32 seconds)  #LiveUnderTheKing

Are you living as if you are under the rulership of God with your decisions, your time, your treasures, your talents, your tongue? The people around you hear you give praise, hear you speak joyfully instead of complain. Here you here you have words of faith instead of words of failures and flaws. The people around you hear and understand that you love Jesus. There's a difference between naming Jesus and just saying I follow God. [01:13:50] (35 seconds)  #FaithInActions

That's a cycle in Judges. We saw that from about chapter three to about chapter 17. And that was a cycle again and again and again and again we saw. And it's a cycle that we need to learn from. It kinda looks like this. Wash, rinse, repeat. Wash, rinse, repeat. I don't know if you've ever read the jar on your shampoo, but that's what it says. Right? Same with Judges says, wash, rinse, repeat. Come back to me. Come back to me. He's calling you back. [00:55:59] (28 seconds)  #WashRinseRepeat

That's the story of what happens when you have no no king. There are some external problems that are happening. Internal, there are problems. Internal, there are big problems internally. Internally, their identity is connected with God but they don't obey God. It's really easy to shout how Hosanna with the crowd. Right? But as Julia said, you know, sometimes you can shout how hosanna on Sunday morning, but then four or five days later, you're shouting crucify him because he didn't do what you wanted him to do. He wasn't who you thought he was. [01:02:33] (42 seconds)  #FickleFaith