Okay, we are going to sing a song and this is the song you see over here. Can you guess what Bible verse is this? This is a song inspired or based on? Charlotte. Of course, and you all know this Bible verse, right? And this is all the song there is. There is one more. This part, just repeat. So I'm gonna show you the motion quickly and meanwhile, Lena will help me with the microphone because she has to sing and I need to do motion. Enough, come over here. And you can take the mic out so you can hold it. Okay, I'll show you the motion. We go like this. For God, can you follow? God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, Jesus Christ. that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. That's all. Okay? Can you sing? Now we'll start. We'll sing it two times. God so loved the world, God so loved the world, God so loved the world, He gave His only Son. And whosoever believeth in Him, in Him, Should not they reach for the eternal night? For God so loved the world, God so loved the world, God so loved the world, He gave His only Son. That's the song. Can we do it one more time? And this time I'm going to ask you to help me. Help, help, help, help. Lyle, Shiloh. You're so fast. Do motion with me, okay? You can sing with me. God so loved the world. God so loved the world. God so loved the world. He gave his only son. so ever living in him, in him. Should that perish, should that eternal life obey, for God so loved the world, God so loved the world. God so loved the world. Thank you. Go ahead and take a seat. Thank you, Inam. All right. Mrs. Quang, would you mind calling Mr. Hendrickson's class and asking Mr. Hendrickson whether there's a week of 12th graders out there? They were supposed to be here by this time. All right. It is good to see you this morning for chapel. Let's go ahead and begin this morning. by opening our Bibles. It's been a while since we've been in the Bible and looking at a Christian biography. And now we're going back to the Book of Mark. So we've looked at the Book of Mark and we've seen that this book has a theme verse that basically tells you what Jesus came to do. Does anyone remember what that verse is or what that verse was? Jesus talks about himself, and he describes his work and his ministry. Does anyone remember either what chapter it was or what the idea was? I know it's been a few months, so. Well, that's good, we have a chance to go back in a minute. In Mark, chapter 10, verse 45. This is really a verse that you can see everything that happens in the book of Mark, and it comes back to this. Jesus talks about himself, he says, the Son of Man. Remember that title? It's a very precious name for Jesus, the Son of Man. for the son of man, and he says he did not do something, did not come, what? Oh, which one? To serve or to be served? Which one did he not come to? To, say it nice and loud. To be served, right? He was not, everyone was not serving him, but he did come, why? He came to serve and the result was as he finished serving and Then goes to the cross what is he did still there in Mark 10 verse 45 So Jesus came to serve And one of the ways that he served us was by buying us, ransoming us from sin. See, sin was our owner. We could not stop sinning. Sin basically chained us up, but Jesus paid the ransom so that now we no longer have to sin. Now we are free in Christ. Now He is our Redeemer. He is our Lord and our God. So you are in Mark chapter 11, right? I asked you to turn to Mark. Mark chapter 11. I think we may have spoken about this once before, but it's good to review a little bit before we begin to move on. Mark chapter 11, I'm going to read the first 10 verses, all right? Mark chapter 11, verses 1 through 10. Mrs. Park, would you mind getting the light so we can see the screen as well? All right, there we go. So Mark chapter 11, verse 1 says, I'm in John, that won't work. Let me get it over to Mark. Mark chapter 11, verses 1 through 10. Now when they drew near Jerusalem to Bethphage and Bethany, At the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, go into the village opposite you, and as soon as you've entered it, you will find a colt tied on which no one has sat. Loose it, bring it. And if anyone says to you, why are you doing this? Say, the Lord has need of it. And immediately he will send it here. So they went their way and found the colt tied by the door outside the street, and they loosed it. But some of those who stood there said to them, what are you doing, loosing the colt? And so they spoke to them just as Jesus had commanded. So they let them go. Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their clothes on it. And he sat on it. And many spread their clothes on the road. and others cut down leafy branches or palm trees from the trees and spread them on the road. Verse nine, then those who went before and those who followed cried out saying, Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. And then verse 11 mentions that Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple. So when he had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, he went to Bethany at the twilight. Let's pray. Our Father in heaven, we do thank you for this time to look at your word and to see Jesus. We thank you, Father, that you sent your only begotten son, the Lord Jesus Christ, into this world to save sinners, to conform us to the image of Christ. We pray that as we look at Christ this morning, that you would be glorified, that you would be magnified, that you would be pleased by all that takes place. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, so we're going to pause the recording for a minute. As you know, the student council here, Daniel Lee, Rachel, and is Vivian here as well? There she is. I'm going to ask the three of them to come up front here. And the three, these three, as you know, they are the student council president, the student council vice president, and the secretary. And they would like to share a reminder with you as student leaders about the importance of speaking in English, following the school rules, and being a good example. Our school theme, now we read in the scriptures this morning, Mark 11, about Jesus Christ here coming to the earth, coming to Jerusalem on the map of Adonki. And what we see here in these scriptures is Christ. This is the title for what we're looking at today, Christ Occult and Acclamation. Now, acclamation is kind of a big, fancy word. Does anyone know what acclamation means? Nobody? All right. You get a free vocabulary word as well. All right, acclamation is praise. Remember, when Jesus comes into Jerusalem on that donkey, people are really excited and they have something to say to praise Jesus. And so he comes with acclamation. This is basically just a big word meaning praise. I just like big words. Okay, so occult, so the title is Christ Occult, which is, occult is a baby donkey, and affirmation. And we have read Mark chapter 11, verses one through 11. And as we look at this passage, it helps us to see each one of these concepts. Christ, the donkey, occult. and the praise of Christ's affirmation. Now, what you want to see here is that, as we said when Irena read Mark 10, verse 45, that Jesus Christ did indeed come to earth. He was born and placed in a manger, and he came and he lived a very humble servant lifestyle. He came to be served, he came to serve, But as Irena said the first time, he ultimately will not only be the servant, but he will himself be served. So Irena was actually unintentionally correct. What we see is that the Lord Jesus Christ is indeed God's own Son. And we sang about that as we sang John 3.16. For God so loved the world that he gave, who? His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. So he is the Son of God. But God, God's own Son, became a man. Remember, he was born and laid in a manger. The angels in heaven sang hallelujah. And so on earth, He came as a servant, and he served people how? Well, he came and served them as a prophet, as someone who spoke for God. He taught people God's word. Nicodemus in John 3 comes to Jesus and calls him Rabbi, Teacher, Samsonite. He comes as a spokesman for God, a prophet, a lawgiver. He comes as a healer. He heals the blind. makes him see. He heals the lame, makes him walk. He heals the lepers and gives them perfect health. So he has compassion, he cares, he loves for the sick, the hurting, for those who died. He raised a 12-year-old girl from the dead. He raised, as people were carrying a boy's body to be buried, He raised that boy from the dead, his widow mom. So he raises the dead, he raises Lazarus. He comes not only to serve as the lawgiver and prophet, he comes as a healer, he comes as a provider. Jesus is our everlasting father, Isaiah 9, 6 says. And so he is eternal, and as our father, he takes care of us, he loves us, he cares for us. He provides food, clothing, shelter. He gives us our parents. And so He provides food during His life for thousands of people. He acts as a priest. Remember, there was all the priests in the Old Testament, Levi, who would offer sacrifices, burn offerings, sin offerings, all the rest. And Jesus comes not only as a high priest, but He also comes as a sacrifice, the Lamb of God, who gave His life so that we could have everlasting life. And so as a priest, a priest would pray for the people. They would intercede for the people. And we read about how Jesus would pray all night long, or how Jesus would get up early in the morning and pray. And so he would spend the night of prayer And he came not only as lawgiver, healer, provider, priest, he came as our savior. And that was the last part of Mark 10, 45. He came to give his life for ransom for many. And so he forgave sins. In Mark 2, many a long time ago, we talked about how four friends let their friend, who could not walk, down from the ceiling. Can you imagine that? And Jesus says to this man, and in a sense that is a service that is the greatest act of service. And so we came to save us from our sins. but he came to prepare to rule. And so as we look at those first six verses, what we see is we say that the Lord Jesus is Christ. Now Christ is a word that means Messiah. So what does Messiah mean? In the Old Testament, the Messiah or the Christ was someone who would be anointed. So there were three guys, Three jobs that had to be anointed. Do you know who they were? What jobs had to be anointed? Anyone? Yeah, Shiloh? So what kind of job do you have to do to be a Christ? Yes. Kings were anointed. Anyone else anointed in the Old Testament or in the Bible? Yes. Prophets were anointed. Anyone else? Yes. Priests. Prophets, priests, and kings were, they would take, now I don't know, do any of you put stuff in your hair? To kind of hold it in place? How would you like to have oil poured on your hair? That was what they were used to. Pretty greasy, but it had an important point. This was a picture of the Holy Spirit. And so these guys were anointed for their job. And so Jesus came as the anointed one, as the one who would be the prophet, priest, and king for us. And so the Apostle John said that while Jesus was on earth, His disciples, His followers, beheld His glory. He was a man walking among them, but He was also God. And so they were looking at God in flesh. We beheld His glory. What was the glory like? The glory as of the only begotten Son of God. This one who is God, we saw. We saw what He did. We saw what He was like. We saw God in Jesus Christ. And so people saw God in the flesh. And so God the Father promised Jesus Christ, His Son, I will give in all. This world that you made is yours. You are going to rule over all the kingdoms. You are going to be king of kings, the great prince or king of peace, the God, the king who rules. And so here is Jesus Christ, the one that In Psalm 2, it says, ask Him, Son. You want the world? You want the nations? Ask Him. And so Jesus will reign. And Jesus was recognized. People saw Him and they said, oh, this is the Son of David. Remember, David was a great king. This is the Son of David. and he's going to one day rule over all the earth. And what we see as we look at Mark 11 is that Jesus, as you look there in verse 4, he describes himself as the Lord. So he sends his disciples, his followers, and says, I want a donkey. I want a baby donkey. And look, the guy owns a donkey. And you don't normally, you know, if I go and ask for, Evan, do your parents have a car? If I go and say, Evan, give me your car. You say, why? It's not your car, it's dad's car, it's mom's car. Right? But Jesus said, the Lord has need of him. So he calls himself Lord, Master. Ruler, owner. And so we see that there in verse 4. Verse 3 rather. The Lord has need of it. And so he sends his disciple and says, your owner, your ruler, your master has need of this donkey. And so what we see in that last one, he comes, came, and this is like a foreshadowing. You know in a story where you could give sense about what's going to happen? like a foreshadowing, this would happen, and then the author tells you what happened. This is kind of a foreshadowing of what things are going to be like. So he came, notice the black says, so he comes, he gets that donkey, he calls himself Lord. Look at verses 7 and 8. In verse 7, we see that the disciples do what Jesus commanded. They let them go, them, the baby donkey, and the mama donkey. And so they brought the coal to Jesus, verse 7, and they threw their clothes on it, and he sat on it, and many spread their clothes on the road, like their coats or whatever. Others cut down leafy branches, these palm trees, and put them on the road. So, of course, Jesus Christ rules nature. Remember, he's the Son of God. So here is a wild colt. It's never been ridden on before. It is not, we call it, broken. Not like a toy that's broken, but it hasn't been taught to have riding. But Jesus just kind of hops on and the colt obeys. He rides this young, untamed colt. And so Jesus Christ is the Lord, and he claims the cult. He says, I'm Lord. Shuseo, right? Give it to me. Give me the donkey. Let me ride it. He orders both his disciples as well as the owner of the donkeys. And as he comes in to Jerusalem, you can find the Old Testament in Zechariah. Go back to the Old Testament. It's near the end. It's one of these, we call it minor because it's shorter. But Zachariah, chapter 9. In Zachariah 9, I'll read this verse really quickly because we're running out of time here. Here we have hundreds of years, probably about 600 years before Jesus is born, this prophecy about Jesus. Zachariah 9, I'm going to read two verses, verses 9 and 10. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, who is at Israel, that's the Jewish people, Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the capital city. Behold, your king is coming to you. Who's the king? Who is he? He is Jesus Christ. He is coming. He is just. So he is holy, he is righteous. He is just and having salvation. loathing or humble, riding on a donkey, a colt, a foal of donkey. We see here it's even going to be a baby donkey. Verse 10, I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, the horse from Jerusalem, the battle bow shall be cut off. Notice the middle line here, he, the messiah, the king, the donkey rider. He shall speak peace to the nations. His dominion shall be from sea to sea, from the river to the ends of the earth. So we see here verse 9, the coming king, the one who will reign. Verse 10, the king reigning, the king peacefully in control. And so he comes humbly. He comes righteously. Notice he's described here as just. He is humble. He's the winner. People don't like him. People try to fight. They lose. He's the great victor. He talks about Ephraim not being able to resist. That's Israel. He comes to his own. They reject him. He comes back, and they have to receive him. Satan himself is crushed by Jesus. The world will submit to him. Now then, go back to Mark 11. We saw that as Jesus comes into Jerusalem, what happens? People prepare for a king to come. They see the colt. They see the one riding the colt. And they realize, here is Zechariah 9. Here is a king coming. And so, as he is proclaiming, I am Christ. I am Messiah. I am the son of David. I will rule. And he's coming in peace, humbly. He's not coming with a sword. Notice he comes as the accepted Savior. So look at verse 9 and 10 in Mark 11. Mark 11, verses 9 through 11. So verse 9 says, Those who went before, so in front of the donkey, in front of Jesus, those who followed out. So we have people in front of Jesus, we have people behind Jesus, and they were getting excited. They were, oh boy, look, this has never happened before. Look, oh boy, Hosanna! Which means, save the Lord. It's a word found in the Psalms. It's a Hebrew word. Hosanna! It's a word of praise because not only is it a prayer, save us, it's a, it's, it's God will save us. Hosanna! We are saved! Here is our Savior! Hosanna! Blessed! Psalm 118. Blessed is he! Who he? Jesus he. Christ he. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. This is Yahweh. This is God. He is coming. He is here. He is Emmanuel. God with us. Hosanna. Let's look at verse two. A kingdom has a king. A kingdom has citizens. Blessed is the kingdom of our father David. It's coming back. David ruled over one kingdom. Jesus will rule over one kingdom, which is the world. The kingdom of our father David. His son is here on this Dom Pico. Oh, this kingdom is coming. It's going to be something. It will be better than when David was king, because now the Davidic king, Jesus Christ, is here. This is glorious. This is great. This is wonderful. He is coming in the name of the Lord. He is, oh, Then verse 11, here is the Christ, the King, coming into Jerusalem, and he goes where? To the temple, where he will be the great high priest. He is going to make the final sacrifice of himself on the cross in just a little while. He is going there as the one who makes the final sin sacrifice, the final Passover offering, the final atonement. All that is to say, He makes sure that you and I are forgiven of our sins if we trust in Him and accept His gift of eternal life. So we have seen Christ, a cult, that brings the King as the one who deserves our ownership. who comes as the accepted Savior, the Davidic King. Let's pray. Our Father in heaven, we do thank you that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, our Messiah, our priest who is sitting on the right hand of God, our prophet who has spoken all truth to us. Our God and our Savior. May He reign in our lives today and evermore. In Jesus' name, amen.