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You're listening to kfi Am six forty
on demand. It is Palm Sunday.

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And for those of you who don't
know, the palm Sunday is the mark

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of my entrance into Jerusalem and essentially
starts the last week of my life.

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And this is an interesting day.
And I titled this as Expectation is the

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mother of disappointment. And it's interesting
that you you see that interwoven in life

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every day. And that might sound
confusing. What Palm Sunday Wasn't everybody was

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excited? Weren't they excited that you
were arriving? Absolutely so where was the

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false expectation? Well, think of
it this way. Today would be the

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you know, the mark of my
entrance into Jerusalem, the beginning of the

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last week of my life, and
starts with deep faith and conviction. The

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attitudes of those that were there and
witnessed this were such that the animal in

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which I wrote in on they didn't
even want the bottoms of his hoofs to

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touch the ground. They laid the
palm fronds down. That's where you get

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palm Sunday. And this was an
act of triumph in their eyes. It's

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often called the triumphal entry. So
it starts with deep faith in conviction Luke

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nineteen thirty eight. You hear the
Hosannas and the King who comes in the

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name of the Lord being yelled out
and cried out by the people that were

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in audience of this. They recognized
I was the chosen One, the Messiah,

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the long awaited son of David,
the fulfillment of God's promises. And

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they stood on the beauty and intensity
of that very conviction, noticing that what

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they witnessed on that day was the
entrance of the Messiah. But this changes,

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obviously one week later, I'm on
a cross. One week later,

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the chance of joy and praise turned
to chance of execution. What causes this?

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It's expectation. It's false expectation.
You do this all the time with

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God, and partly your view and
where you're standing is right, but your

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timing or the fulfillment, the way
God's going to fulfill that request or that

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idea or that belief becomes different,
and then all your faith goes out the

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door. False expectation changed that praise
and worship in the chance of anger and

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disappointment. One week later and I
was crucified. So what were those expectations.

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Well, it was believed that I
would enter Jerusalem in power, into

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authority, that I would take my
throne and free Israel from Rome. The

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common belief was almost one of military
The common belief is that the Messiah,

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the chosen One, the anointed One, would rise up from the people appointed

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by God and would destroy the military
power of the day. It wasn't even

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about God in that In that sense, it was more about the individuals.

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Is more about you, you standing
there and waiting for God to do what

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you want God to do, rather
than what God must do. See,

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that was the plan in the eyes
of man, not in the eyes of

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God. My throne would be taken, But not when I overthrowed a government,

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a power, a principality on earth. My throne would be taken when

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I suffered, died, and resurrected, conquering the power of sin, not

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just the power of Rome. And
this is seen and understood later after the

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fact Acts two twenty, Act two
thirty two through thirty three. This Jesus

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God raised up, and of that
we are all witness. Being therefore exalted

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at the right hand of God,
and having received from the Father the promise

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of the Holy Spirit. He has
poured out this that you yourselves are seeing

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and hearing. It was after the
experience they understood God's plan, but many

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were left scattered about because they had
their own vision of what God should be

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doing. And you're probably in that
same place today. That expectation ends up

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bringing disappointment. You sit and you
wait for God to do something, but

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you wait for God to do that
which you think is right, that which

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somehow leaves your once fulfilled. But
that's not how God works. God is

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in a cosmic bellhop running to and
fro based on your wishes. The key

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here is to get your wishes in
line with the wishes of God, because

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these expectations in everyday life, every
part of your life, end up causing

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you to go down the wrong path
or to be disappointed with something wonderful because

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it's not what you thought, it's
not what you expected. And the people

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of Israel expected me to come in
to wipe out wrong and by having that

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attitude, by having that expectation,
missed the beauty of what was at hand,

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what was taking place and right in
front of them. And I knew

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there's many scripture that talk about me
reigning, but it comes with the conquering

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of sin, of all enemies,
not just Rome one Corinthians fifteen twenty five.

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For he must reign until he has
put all his enemies under his foot.

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That is not about one enemy,
that is against the combatant of sin.

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And how small that is the vision
of the people on that day to

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see me as someone who would just
take care of that one problem, that

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one little problem in comparison to the
sins of the world world. Yet selfishly,

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that problem was all there was in
their eyes. And similarly you today

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think of things that are in your
life as the biggest, the only problem

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in which needs to be tackled,
not seeing the bigger picture and the beauty

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of the righteous plan, that is
the plan, that is God's plan.

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Palm Sunday, the marking of my
entrance into Jerusalem, what is often called

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the triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, the
last week of my life, starting out

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with such deep faith and conviction.
Luke nineteen thirty eight shows that people called

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out, they cried out that I
was the king who comes in the name

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of the Lord. So it's not
that they had it completely wrong, but

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they were missing. They were missing
the most important part they were missing the

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totality of why I was there and
what I was going to do, and

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not understanding that missing that was due
to expectation. The expectations were set incorrectly.

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How often does this happen to you, that an expectation exkews you from

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seeing the beauty, the true beauty
of a situation, and it ends up

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letting you down. This is part
of many problems and relationships as well,

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and that's absolutely right. Expectation is
the mother of disappointment. And in this

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case, that expectation that started with
this praise and worship ended with my crucifixion

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and some of the same people screaming
and yelling for Barabbas. That expectation is

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what killed. The perspective was off. They wanted me to destroy Rome.

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They thought that's what I was there
for. But that was the plan in

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the eyes of man, not the
plan in the eyes of God, and

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they missed it. They missed it. Now, if you read on it

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talks about it talks that I point
these things out. But not only did

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I point it out to everyone or
just the lay people that were there,

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I pointed it out to the religious
leaders. The religious leaders as well were

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mistaken. It's not just left up
to the people. So I say these

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things today that you understand about expectations
and how they can ruin your vision and

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understanding of what's going to take place
or the bigger picture that's more important than

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just that small thing you're looking and
saying, God, I want you to

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remove Rome from my life. And
God wants to remove a plethora of problems

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or concerns, to get these things
out of your life to make you healthier

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and even happier. But you hold
on everything else and say, well,

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just remove this one thing, and
God has a bigger plan and your relationships

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as well. You're focused on this
little thing, and that expectation ends up

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making you not appreciate what you have
and the greater good that is coming from

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the relationship. And throughout that that
attitude, you miss the best part,

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You miss the most important stuff because
you're lost in false expectation. Palm Sunday

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marking my entrance into Jerusalem and the
last week of my life. Expectation is

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the mother of disappointment. And I
want you to take that away with you

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today and into this week and understanding
how you bring expectation into your life in

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every way, in every form,
whether it be at work in relationships with

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your faith. How many times have
you heard people that are praising God and

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loving God and something goes wrong in
their life, and all of a sudden

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their faith is gone. There are
some expectations that are written in stone,

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and still man kind of looks away
like death inevitable. But everyone looks around

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trying to find ways around it,
or to somehow blame God or get upset

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when a life comes to an end, because the expectation is that you're going

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to have ninety one hundred years,
but that's not said anywhere. There's no

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guarantee. The false expectation of the
people of Israel at the time led them

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first to praise my coming and then
second to denounce it because it wasn't the

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way they expected me to come.
And I knew that this would happen later

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on. In Luke nineteen forty one
and forty two, it says that when

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I approached Jerusalem, I saw the
city and I wept over it, and

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I said, if you had known
in this day, even you the things

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which make for peace, but now
they have been hidden from your eyes.

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I'm telling them, if you would
have recognized if you would have fully understood

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who I am, then this this
minor piece that you see, this desire

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for made to conquer Rome. See, that was all that they wished where

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they were seeing it too small.
So on Palm Sunday two thousand years ago,

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you had people with false expectation,
thinking that I was just going to

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come and destroy Rome and then all
would be well. But it was bigger

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than that, and in focusing on
just that little wish, they missed the

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beauty. And some seventy years ad
Jerusalem and Israel started to see the problems

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of missing that. But it wasn't
just the people, it was the lay

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people walking around. It was the
religious people as well. They had false

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expectations. The religious leaders of the
day had their own thoughts as to who

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I was, and more importantly to
them, who I wasn't. In Luke

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nineteen thirty eight, the crowds were
crying, blessed is the King who comes

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in the name of the Lord.
They had it right at least at that

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point. But if you go just
a little bit further, if you go

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to the very next verse, what
do you read that some of the Pharisees,

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the religious leaders at the time,
some of the Pharisees in the crowd

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said to me, teacher, rebuke
your disciples. Why did they want me

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to rebuke them, Well, they
wanted me to rebuke them because they were

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giving me praise. They were saying, blessed is the King who comes in

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the name of the Lord. So
y, on one side, you have

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the people that understand, at least
in the beginning, who I was,

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but didn't understand what I was there
to do. And then you have the

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religious people who didn't even understand who
I was, and they wanted me to

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rebuke the lay people forgetting it right
because they didn't see me to be the

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Messiah they expected, they expected someone
else. And whereas the lay people saw

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me as the Messiah, they expected
me to do something else, the religious

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leaders saw me altogether as someone else, as not the Messiah at all,

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wanting me to rebuke my disciples,
wanting me to rebuke those that said,

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Hosannah, blessed is the King who
comes in the name of the Lord.

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They didn't see me as the Messiah, and almost everyone missed what God was

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doing because of it. I wept
because I knew the turmoil, the pain

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that would come to the people,
not just there in Jerusalem, but over

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the whole world. And this is
something that you deal with every single day

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with your relationship with God, with
your relationship with Man. These false expectations

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that get in your way because you
think something should be going one way goes

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the other. You know, this
attitude about having a soulmate, although beautiful

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and whimsical and sounds wonderful and God
breathed on paper, but causes a lot

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of problems, a lot of divorce
because if your expectation is there's only one

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person for you prior to marriage,
then when you get in that marriage and

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there's problems and there's struggles, like
there is in any good relationship, the

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first thought is, well, this
isn't the right one, this isn't my

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soulmate, this isn't the one I
should be with. Therefore I need to

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be with someone else. I assure
you, when you marry, that is

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your soul mate, that is the
only one that you should have. It's

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best that you go through not picking
bad ones because outside of abuse, verbal

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and physical, outside of infidelity,
God doesn't want you to break that bond.

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And so these expectations build and you
miss what God's doing the people of

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Israel are you? And you get
these expectations and you miss the bigger picture

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that God has. And I'm asked, is does expectation come from from pride,

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from greed, from all of the
above. It comes from you thinking

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that you know best always. That's
the weird relationship between man and God.

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That's askew. Man all often thinks. You sit there going, okay,

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God is the one. It's like
having, you know, a giant to

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do your bidding. So you think, well, all I need is the

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brown of God that I'm just going
to think at what I need. I

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know what's best for me, but
I need the brown of God to execute

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those wishes and needs so that I
can move forward on my desires. And

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that's not the way it works.
The Father's not there just to do your

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heavy lifting because you need it lifted. Those expectations will not only kill you,

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you'll miss the beauty of God's will, the steadfastness of God's will,

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and lose the total insight of the
situation. God has a plan and it's

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always always bigger than the plan you
have for yourself. But how many times

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do you hear people say, Gosh, if I only had this, if

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I only had a million dollars,
or if I only had a better boss,

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or if I only had a better
job, or if I only had

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a better car, a better house. That all these things you start seeing,

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you start expecting in life that would
make your life better. I expect

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my life would be better if I
had X, Y and Z. But

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why and who's to say that's where? That isn't limiting where God wants you

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to be just at this much money, or just in this home, or

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just in this neighborhood, or just
with this job. To look beyond those

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things to the bigger picture. God
didn't want to save man from one army.

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My father wanted to save you from
the army of Hell, the true

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enemy that desires to absorb and zap
all joy, all things that are good,

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all things that give glory to God. But two thousand years ago on

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Palm Sunday, the desire was just
to get Rome out of the equation,

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as if another army wouldn't arise,
as if that was the only thing in

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their way. And this happens every
single day. You do it with politicians,

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every single time. You could almost
watch the politicians with exception they come

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just as triumphantly with praise and sometimes
unfortunately worship. And part of that is

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legitimate hope, as you should have
when there's newness in office, every opportunity

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for every politician to have the attitude
of hope and newness. But when those

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politicians don't do exactly what you want, exactly what you think is going to

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be best, you shoot them down, regardless of what side of any aisle

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you may sit on. And it's
because of those expectations and what you think

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that someone should be doing, your
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your girlfriend, whatever it might be, this is what it should be.

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And if it's not, then you
shoot it down. So do your expectations

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of God get in the way of
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your life. How did Palm Sunday
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in Matthew Matthew Chapter twenty one,
when it talks about the triumphant entry that

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if you look down, as I
wrote in you can look down on chapter

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twenty one, verse eight, and
read on, and it says, and

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most of the multitudes spread their garments
on the road, and others were cutting

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branches from the trees and spreading them
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this is talking about palm fronds,
the palm fronds from the trees, and

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they were laying it on the ground
so that my animal that I was walking

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in on would not even touch the
ground. And so it becomes palm Sunday

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for that reason. That's why the
palm fronds becomes such a symbol on this

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day. So it's really about the
entrance. The entrance into Jerusalem missed expectations,

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This missed understanding as to who I
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do. Interestingly enough, Florida,
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of the time was expected that it
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because of the term that is used
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put this upon the location of Florida
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Easter continues to spread and the beliefs
and understandings therein. But Palm Sunday,

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that's where it comes from, just
shortening the fact that people lay not

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only their garments on the ground,
but also palm fronds so that the animal

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in which I was walking in on
didn't touch the ground. Claude, Welcome

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to the Jesus Christ Show. Oh
yes, Jesus, I would appreciate your

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comments on a question of observation that
I have, And I state first of

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all that I'm very much a believer. When we go back two twenty five

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hundred years ago, is it any
wonder that your people rejected you, because,

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and correct me if I'm wrong,
there was every number of false messiahs,

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and in fact probably went out of
the way to pretend to be fulfilling

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prophecy and that sort of thing.
In many cases, even you know,

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magicians of the time would come behind
you and duplicate some of the same things

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you did. Absolutely, and even
though you're very non political, the way

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I see this thing is back in
the day two thousand years ago, it

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was very political because, like you
said, a lot of your people expected

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you to rescue them, destroy the
omens and everything else. I've got to

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believe that there was such spin going
on the other side as far as setting

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things up for the way they happened. Of course, there's a lot of

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public relations on the other side and
that sort of thing where your of course,

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your public relations was the truth.
But yeah, I think it was

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kind of a very political time.
Even though you didn't get involved in the

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politics, I think it was very
political on the other side. And I

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guess what my comment would be,
You know, who could blame your people

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for denying you because of some of
the things that went on in the past,

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as far as the falsema size and
that sort of thing. I just

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appreciate your comment on that, of
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I my add just taking making a
synopsis of what was taking place,

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absolutely Claude. There were many people
that not only followed me, that kind

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of did the magic tricks and said, look, I'm doing miracles too.

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On every street corner you had somebody
claiming to be the Christ. As a

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matter of fact, a lot of
people misunderstand this in scripture, but in

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Matthew where it talks about there will
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be those that claim to be the
Christ. And a lot of people think,

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well, for instance, if there
was a radio show where somebody was

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portraying Christ to teach people and inspire
them about this more than special individual,

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that that would be a false Christ. No, what it's talking about is

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actual false Christ, not people pretending
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or even radio. But it's talking
about people who actually claim to be the

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Christ and say Jesus wasn't the Messiah
I am. And so that's a problem

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that will come again, and it
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see people popping up saying that they
are the Messiah and that Jesus wasn't or

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whatever that took place there. It
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It was about understanding that that they
still could have seen me. So,

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yes, was there reason for them
not to see me to look away?

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Yes, there were distractions, But
that's like saying that it's legitimate for a

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business to go out of business because
they don't want to accept any money because

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there's so many counterfeits out there.
It just means do the homework, take

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the time and learn what's true versus
what's a counterfeit. And they had every

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ability to do that, and those
that didn't didn't. Kf I AM six

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forty on demand