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[690.42 --> 690.60] Yeah.
[690.60 --> 697.52] The magi come and they show up to Herod, who's the regent king, the puppet king installed by Rome.
[697.52 --> 704.38] And they say, we have come to worship the one who has been born king of the Jews.
[704.90 --> 705.16] Mm-hmm.
[705.20 --> 705.44] Right?
[705.52 --> 707.72] And again, from the beginning, and then over and over and over.
[707.72 --> 718.48] And we looked at all these instances in the sermon that Jesus says, either implicitly or explicitly, that he comes as king.
[718.48 --> 719.08] Yeah.
[719.08 --> 726.70] He comes as a particular kind of king, which inverts the expectations of the people who come.
[727.02 --> 727.12] Yep.
[727.12 --> 727.96] And who hear him.
[728.28 --> 730.60] And yet, this point has been made clear all along.
[730.60 --> 743.26] And so to the question of by what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority, that question has been answered throughout the entire gospel.
[743.66 --> 743.86] Yeah.
[743.96 --> 750.40] And I think people in the world will often compare Jesus and Socrates together.
[750.40 --> 757.88] And the way they do that comparison is that the way they would teach was by asking questions or by example.
[758.28 --> 760.94] They wouldn't actually just give you a straight answer.
[761.28 --> 768.42] And I think part of that is because if you think about it yourself and come up with the answer, you're more likely to believe it than if somebody tells you.
[768.74 --> 774.04] Because if somebody just tells you this is how it is, you're likely to go, no, I don't like that.
[774.04 --> 780.28] But if you come to realize it, then you go, oh, this is true.
[780.54 --> 780.72] Yeah.
[780.76 --> 780.98] Right?
[781.12 --> 793.14] And I think you see that in the chief priests, because they're saying, well, if we give them this answer or if we give them this answer, and we know one's a lie, and we know one is the truth, but we don't like the truth.
[793.46 --> 793.68] Yeah.
[794.50 --> 795.56] Well, and I think that's right.
[795.60 --> 799.32] And not only is that like the Socratic method, right?
[799.32 --> 801.12] It's also the rabbinical method.
[801.26 --> 801.46] Yeah.
[801.86 --> 802.06] Right?
[802.06 --> 808.76] And Jesus has that regularly, even though you have heard it said, but I tell you.
[809.04 --> 809.34] Right?
[809.38 --> 811.00] That's a rabbinical formula.
[811.24 --> 811.64] Yeah.
[811.72 --> 811.90] Right?
[811.96 --> 818.56] For entering into the dialogue with the other rabbis of the day who have said this thing, and now I'm saying this thing.
[818.64 --> 818.90] Right?
[818.96 --> 821.48] And it's an authority formula.
[821.80 --> 822.28] Yeah.
[822.36 --> 824.74] For rabbis and their pedagogy.
[825.32 --> 825.48] Yeah.
[825.84 --> 828.74] And I think Jesus, he models that for us.
[828.76 --> 829.48] And you're right, right?
[829.48 --> 839.54] The asking of questions to usher people towards the truth is one of his methods.
[839.70 --> 841.64] You see it with the rich young ruler, for instance.
[842.02 --> 849.14] Well, you also see it with God right in the first chapters of Genesis, when he says, where are you?
[849.14 --> 850.52] What have you done?
[850.94 --> 852.36] Who told you you were naked?
[852.78 --> 852.92] Yeah.
[853.24 --> 859.62] He doesn't want, like, not until he curses them does he say, this is the thing.
[859.98 --> 860.14] Yeah.
[860.24 --> 862.62] It's all questions up until then.
[862.62 --> 869.40] But, yeah, so we've got the authority of Jesus with the chief priests and that question.
[869.78 --> 873.50] We have then, early on, the triumphal entry.
[874.12 --> 881.80] And what I like about this is that people who are familiar with history recognize that this is a king entering a conquered land.
[881.80 --> 904.36] Because oftentimes when, like, when Nebuchadnezzar took over Israel, when Babylon took over Judah, when Assyria took over Israel, when Egypt or one of those nations fought, the king would enter on a white horse and go to the temple and either smash down the altar or take their god and put it in.
[904.58 --> 905.48] And be like, we've won.
[905.66 --> 906.62] My god has won.
[906.62 --> 934.86] And what you see Jesus doing is he's been preaching all across the land, and now he's walking into the capital city, but on a donkey with the people not weeping, not mourning because they've lost, because they've been defeated, but praising him because he's arrived and laying down palm branches.
[934.86 --> 939.82] But it essentially is not only just a king walking into the land, but he's conquered.
[940.26 --> 940.70] He's won.
[941.18 --> 941.28] Yeah.
[942.20 --> 944.08] Well, and that's, you're right.
[944.20 --> 951.46] Like, so there's the historical precedent there of kind of like an inauguration ceremony, right?
[953.04 --> 957.90] Where this is happening to the leader, to the king, recognizing this.
[958.28 --> 962.36] There's something about, you know, the donkey and the foal of a donkey, right?
[962.74 --> 962.92] Yeah.
[962.92 --> 967.90] There's something about that, and that connects back to Zechariah 9, verse 9, of course.
[968.44 --> 972.06] But that being indicative of the kind of king that he is, right?
[972.10 --> 975.84] He's not coming in on a war stallion, but he's coming in on a beast of burden.
[976.12 --> 976.30] Yeah.
[976.44 --> 976.64] Right?
[976.66 --> 978.02] He'll do the war stallion later.
[978.12 --> 978.28] Yeah.
[978.34 --> 979.16] He's coming in, yeah.
[979.32 --> 980.94] Well, at the end of time, absolutely.
[981.18 --> 985.30] The white horse with a sword coming out of his mouth, which is just a beautiful, powerful image.
[986.14 --> 986.36] Yeah.
[986.36 --> 990.46] But he, yeah, he comes in on this beast of burden, right?
[990.56 --> 998.62] Like, the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many, right?
[998.62 --> 998.76] Yeah.
[998.76 --> 999.34] Jesus says.
[999.44 --> 1004.34] And so you get that image that matches that kind of humble reality.
[1004.34 --> 1010.02] And so the kind of king that Jesus is, is a humble king.
[1010.08 --> 1010.86] And I'll say it again.
[1010.98 --> 1012.18] I mentioned it on Sunday.
[1012.18 --> 1019.54] But our worship leader on Sunday led us in a prayer that said, we wanted you to come and crush our enemies.
[1019.68 --> 1022.02] And you told us to love our enemies.
[1022.36 --> 1029.18] Which I think is just a beautiful inversion of the kind of expectations and hopes that the people would have had for their Messiah king.
[1029.26 --> 1032.24] But also that we often have when we come to God, right?
[1032.32 --> 1037.82] That we want him to take away all of our problems and make life easy.
[1037.82 --> 1043.54] But in fact, he says, no, I'm going to give you more trials if you want to be holy, right?
[1043.56 --> 1045.80] Like, if you want to be holy, you're going to be persecuted.
[1045.96 --> 1049.56] Or in this world, you will have trouble, Jesus says, right?
[1049.58 --> 1057.20] Like, there's a false gospel that says, you know, your life will become easier when you believe in God.
[1057.20 --> 1064.82] But the truth is, being a disciple of Jesus is going to take you into some pretty hard places.
[1065.08 --> 1065.32] Yeah.
[1065.36 --> 1068.34] And some pretty difficult corners.
[1068.42 --> 1070.06] Not only of your heart, but also of the world.
[1070.48 --> 1070.74] Yeah.
[1071.06 --> 1079.36] I saw, you know, every once in a while you look on Instagram and you see, you see kind of cringy, like, phrases, right?