The Stones Will Cry Out!

So, this morning, our sermon text is actually almost all of the scripture lesson we just read, Leave Off the Cleansing of the Temple. But before we read that passage, I want to talk to you a little bit about Palm Sunday and what the message of Palm Sunday should be. There are many things we could draw out, many things we could pay attention to. As I was considering what text to preach on, I settled on this passage, and then I thought, well, this is a long passage, and I wonder what I should focus on. And my attention was turned to Jesus weeping over Israel, or over Jerusalem, rather. And then I thought, you know, I should look and see what I preached on last summer, you know, last year. And so I looked it up, and guess what I preached on? I preached on this very text, on Jesus weeping over Jerusalem. And you know what I thought?

If you're anything, Dave, you're consistent. You only focus on a few things. And I thought, surely there's something else in this passage that would be helpful to us and good for our souls. And I think it's true of me and probably of you as well that the grief that Jesus felt is the thing that might step out to you here. It sets itself apart in my mind as being the most intense or the most dramatic or the most meaningful. part of the text. I mean, before that, you have him saying, go get the colt that nobody's ever sat on, and the owner saying, sure, you can take it. And then you have the people laying down their coats and laying down the palm branches, and you say, well, isn't that a good kid's story? But we're adults, and we're going to come to the important part, the sad part, the climax. And I thought, well, I did that last year, and so this year we're going to do something else.

And what I want to focus on this morning is verses 37 to 40, which is the account of the people praising God, the Pharisees saying, make them be quiet, and Jesus responding to them. And I don't want to hide the purpose of the sermon from you at the very beginning. The purpose of the sermon is to stir you up to have joy. I think it's something that all Christians struggle with. Maybe early on in your Christian life you had joy because the proximity to you realizing your sins were forgiven was near. And you said, wow. But I think as Christian life goes on, and as we grow and as we see more, joy is one of the things that Satan works especially hard to take away from us. Because it's good fuel and provides great strength to persevere. And so he takes away the fuel, as it were, of the...

the Christian life. And so I simply want to show you this morning and comment on the joy and the rejoicing that the crowds had as Jesus entered into the city. I'm going to read just verses 37 through 40 because we just read the greater context just a minute ago. Would you please stand as we read the word of the Lord? This is the word of the Lord and it is eternally true starting in verse 37. As soon as he was approaching near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen, shouting, Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven and glory in the highest. Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, Teacher, rebuke your disciples. But Jesus answered, I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out.

This is the word of the Lord. You may be seated. At the beginning of verse 37, it says, as he was approaching into Jerusalem. And I think it's worth noting first just a second what he was approaching. He was approaching a city, but he was also approaching an event. Jesus was headed into Jerusalem for the last time. If you were to study his life in ministry up to this point, Jesus made a point of dodging. the danger to some extent. When they'd get angry at him, he'd leave and go somewhere else for a time. And you see the apostles doing this sort of thing in their ministry when Paul's being lowered down in a basket outside the wall because they were looking to kill him. You see it, there's a time for avoidance of the conflict. But as Jesus enters into Jerusalem, the time for avoiding the conflict has expired. And now he's going to meet the conflict.

He's going into the city to celebrate the Passover. This is everyone's understanding as they're coming into the city. But Jesus, who knows all things, knows what's going to happen in Jerusalem. He's going to go into the city. There's going to be the pomp of a victorious king as he enters. And then he's going to teach and he's going to go into the temple and he's going to clear out all the money changers with a whip. And he's going to teach. And the Pharisees are going to reach fever pitch in their opposition to him. And they're going to look for a way. And finally they do. They come to him by night because of Judas' betrayal. But that's for our Good Friday service. He knows all of this and more as he's approaching Jerusalem. And in just a few short days, those crowds that were crying out, blessed is he, the king, who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven and glory in the highest. There would be another crowd crying out a very different thing.

Crucify, crucify. And Jesus knew this as he went into the city. Those who were following Jesus at this point would be scattered, believing that his death, his arrest, meant that he'd been defeated and that he, along with they, had lost. And so I want you to think for just a minute, is what they said true? Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven and glory in the highest. Were they saying that as a matter of ignorance or were they prophesying? I believe they were prophesying. They told the truth, even though they didn't understand what they were saying. They didn't know he was about to die. He did, but they didn't. And so as we begin to consider this passage, I want us to remember that Jesus' death on the cross was always the plan. Way back in Genesis, right after the fall, God pronounces a curse to the man Adam, to the woman Eve, and to the serpent. And to the serpent he says, I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the heel. And so this was the first foreshadowing we have in scripture that this day

Jesus' entry into Jerusalem and what would follow was to come. It was written into the future by God. When he spoke creation into existence, Jesus riding this donkey into Jerusalem to die was the plan. The people didn't know, but Jesus did know. And so the people, in their ignorance, perhaps, are crying out, they're gathering together, they're praising God. They began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen. Hey, Nico, so what were they praising God for? It tells us in this passage, I don't know that it's ever really jumped out at me before, that they were praising God for the miracles that they'd seen. These people had been witness to Jesus' life and to his ministry, and they remembered them. They remembered both the power and the love of God, and it led them to praise him.

To cry out joyfully with a loud voice. And so I want you to think about your own life for just a minute. Have you cried out to God in praise the way they did? Ever? Do you do it often? I fear that most, I see Luis is shaking his head and I'm inclined to believe Luis. And Luis probably makes all of us equally uncomfortable because of this very thing about him. He is loud and he's not ashamed. But many of us, I think our mouths are stopped up. The only time that we give full voice to our emotions and our feelings is when we're angry and never when we're joyful. We think it's a virtue to keep all of our joys turned down and inside of us. We're idiots. I thought for a second and tried just a little bit. Maybe some of you noticed. When I was reading the passage and it says that they had been shouting, blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord, I thought,

I really should shout. I should break the system. Now, did any of you notice I talked a little bit louder, just a little bit? Why is he yelling at us? If you noticed it, you just admitted that you have a problem with this. Any sort of shouting, any sort of joy, any sort of thing that ruffles your feathers, no, we shouldn't, we're down. Do you remember David singing when the ark came into the city? He's dancing around and his wife, his dignified wife, daughter of the king, despises him for his joy, for his unreserved exuberance. And she says, well, you've done well for yourself, haven't you, David? You've exposed yourself to all of the maidens and all of the virgins in the city. And what's David's response? You wait and see what I'm gonna do. If you think that was bad, you wait and see. It's the same sort of thing these people were doing.

And I'm afraid too often it's the thing that's lost from us. We're afraid. We don't even know how. We're too white. Not in like the woke, any sort of sense like that, but we're just too white to give ourselves anything the way that we should. Oh, that God would give us more Hispanics and more Africans who don't have this problem. It would be so good for us. We love peace and we love quiet. We love control. Where would we have been? On this day, where would we have been? Where would you have been? Going along with the crowds all quiet. You want a branch? I'll give you a branch. We would have played our part, good reformed people. But it really is the problem with us. We don't have exuberance and joy the way we should, the way these people did. And we justify it by saying, well, they didn't know what was going to happen. They were being ignorant. They were being foolish. Their slip was showing. Was Jesus ashamed of them? Crying out? Not a bit.

Not a bit. They cried out because of the miracles that they'd seen. Have you ever seen God work? Have you seen it? How did you respond? I remember one time I was uncomfortable when I saw someone respond to the mercy of the grace of God. I was a small group. This was years ago, my other church, you know, our sending church. And we had a young lady who had been coming to church, and she was from Sri Lanka. So not American. She was very intelligent. She was a doctoral student. And so not a believer. She was Buddhist or I think she was Buddhist. But had been coming to church and was, and so, you know, and coming to small group. And so at small group, she's talking and she's talking with the pastor. And she just, in her very reserved way, said, I've been thinking and God's been working and I've decided to give my life to Christ.

Now, I didn't hear that part. I was in the other room. Do you know what I heard? I heard the pastor hooping and hollering and praise God. Can you believe it? Guys, come here. You'll never believe what she just said. Come in here. Come in here. We need to sing. And all of us, what in the world's going on, you know? And here we all come. We would do well to have just a little bit of that in us. Just a little bit or a lot. If I could get you guys. What I notice is that when we have instrumentation, you guys don't sing as loud. When it's a cappella, you sing out. I would like, and I sit right in front of the speaker, so you're at a disadvantage. I would like to hear you guys more than I hear John. That would be delightful. I'd like to see you raise your hands. It's like they don't work. It's like they're tied to our hips. I'd like to see some of this in worship. It would be so encouraging.

I'll tell you. You heard John. John just said amen. Story from my house last week, this past week. One of the kids, was it you or, no, it was Cypress. Cypress is my four-year-old. He's a little boy. He's five. He's five. Thanks, Micah. You sure? Okay. He's turned six. He just turned five. No? Okay. There we go. Sorry. We're still catching up from the new little one. We were talking, and I don't remember if it was during devotions or at dinner or something, but we were talking, and Cypress goes, Mr. Klug said amen, and you said that same thing in the sermon, and Mr. Klug said amen. And it stuck out. I'll just tell you, just as a by the way, it stood out to my son, my five-year-old son, something I had said in a sermon because someone responded to it. It made a memorable impression to him. It helped him just the way it helps you and me.

So, these people had seen the miracles of God, and they weren't ashamed of them, and they weren't ashamed of Jesus. They cried out with a loud voice, praising him. But for us, it's very easy to remember the hard days, the unanswered prayers, the difficulties. We talk a lot about that, maybe too much. But even in those days, God's people ought to be, we ought to be cultivating a remembrance of the Lord's power. of his love, of his kindness toward us. The scripture doesn't record for us who all were there, it just says the crowds. But I wonder how many of the people were there were people that couldn't see, couldn't hear, couldn't walk, had leprosy, and were now with the crowds, seeing and hearing and walking and exclaiming the glory of God. And the people who were with them going, We had to carry him in on a cart before, but now he's the one leading the charge. I'm afraid that too often we tell ourselves we're keeping our joy to ourselves when really all we're doing is throwing water on the fire. We don't know what to do with joy. It makes us uncomfortable. We just don't know how to express ourselves. We don't have words or facial expressions or the capacity to say it, to mean it, to not worry about what other people might think or say.

It is true that, as I'm saying this, I'm thinking about Mary. You know, Mary, when she got news, she stored up those good things in her heart. But she also wrote a song. And so she didn't keep it to herself forever. Let it out. It's the best medicine you can have against Satan's temptations and attacks and the hardships that you face and that you endure on a day-to-day basis. Should your whole life just be an account of all of the hardships and all of the unanswered prayers so far? Is that what you're going to bring to the... to the throne of Jesus and say, here you go. Here's what I've dwelt on for my whole life. Were these crowds, these people making fools of themselves? Only in the eyes of the Pharisees. Those who despise their faith and their joy. So is that who you want to emulate? Is that who we should aspire to be like? Those that just a few days later would put Jesus to death because they were jealous of him.

The Pharisees' whole problem with Jesus was that he took away the people's hearts. That was what they hated about him. He speaks with authority, yes. But the people followed him in droves and crowds. He upset their economy of praise and of authority and of control. And that's what they hated. And that's why they put him to death. He was a threat to their way of life. So let's deal for a second at least with what the crowds were saying. Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven and glory in the highest. Very similar to what the angels cried out and proclaimed at Jesus' birth. I asked you earlier, were these things true? Did the people understand what they were saying or were they prophesying? And I'd say to you, no, I don't think they did understand what they were saying. I don't think they would have said it if they would have known that he was going to die.

I think they would have probably scattered sooner, which is to say they'd probably be more like us. But it's good that they were the way they were. They thought as Jesus was coming into town, many of them, that he was coming to overthrow the Romans. And they were wrong about that. He wasn't coming to get rid of Pilate, to free Jerusalem. And yet he was coming into Jerusalem to set them free, just not from the Romans. They didn't understand who their true oppressor was. It wasn't the Romans, but rather Satan and the guilt and the power of sin that they labored under that they needed to be set free from. I think many times the sort of ignorance or immaturity or narrow perspective that we have is a kindness that God gives us. Because they wouldn't have been there praising him if they had known what was going to happen just a few short days later. Do you think they would have? I can't believe they would have.

Because as soon as the difficulty came, their faith failed them. But their faith didn't fail them here because they didn't know. And it was God's kindness because he was praised and he was glorified by what they said and did in this text, even though they didn't know what was coming. Many of us think, I would praise God more if I just knew how the story ended, if I just knew how this problem was going to be resolved. And I think it's a foolish thought. I don't think we would praise God anymore if we knew what was to come. When they saw Jesus going to be arrested, when they saw Jesus being beaten and stripped and whipped, they thought, we've lost. This is over. And yet it wasn't. Jesus was coming as a king. You know, I said, were they right in what they said? What they said was, blessed is the king. They understood that God promised in the Old Testament, which this is a quote from the Old Testament, that a king was coming to set them free.

They didn't understand the nature of their captivity. They thought it was the Romans, but it was their sin. They didn't understand the nature of his kingship. And yet, he did come as a king on that donkey, and he did come to set them free. He ruled from the back of that donkey over all of creation, even as he does today. But how easy is it to look around at the world that we live in and say, I don't know that Jesus is the king of this earth. I don't know that he's in control. If I was in control, I would do it differently. Whoever or whatever we're talking about. We could talk about our society. We could talk about our politics. We could talk about war. We could talk about Putin. We could talk about abortion. We could talk about anything. And we think, I think I have a better way. And yet they confessed that he was coming in as a king, a lord, a master, a ruler. And they were right. They were right then, and they're still right today.

And when we look at what goes on around us in our society and we scratch our heads and we don't know how and why, all we're seeing is our inability to see what God sees. Okay? All that's on display is our narrow-mindedness, how finite we are. And in that, God is not like us. He's not finite. He doesn't deal with only what's right in front of him. He's dealt with all of history. From creation and before to forever. And he bears it all in his own counsels and in his own mind at once. And attends to it down to the details of how many hair each one of you has on your head. He knows it all. And we look and we go, how in the, you know, our minds just, you know, they crash. Does not compute. And that's right, it doesn't compute.

And so you're left with the question at that point, are you going to submit to what your brain says or are you going to submit to what the scripture says, what they said? They said, blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven and glory in the highest. I know you don't understand it completely. Do you believe that it was God's intention, that it is his intention for you not to understand it completely and yet still to confess with your mouth as they did? We can look and see that if they had known about his death coming just a few days later, they wouldn't have done what they did. And I say, that's exactly right. But it's good that they did what they did. And it was recorded for us that they did what they did as an example to us of what we ought to do. There's a lot today who talk about the lordship or the kingship of Jesus Christ that move in reformed circles. And they want to talk and assert his kingship and his lordship. But they do it in such a way as they tear down the authorities that he himself established.

And you say, well, they're so wicked. And I say, do you not think he knows that? You remember what he said to Pilate. You would have no authority except that it was given to you from heaven. Do you not think that those same things are true of our government now today? No, they've sinned in such a way that they've obliterated all of their authority. You understand Pilate killed him. He killed the son of man. He could have saved him and he killed him. And Jesus acknowledges his authority on this earth. And so what I'm left to conclude is that those who would take Jesus' kingship and use it as a way to tear down the authorities that he set up is that they're not trying to build Jesus' authority but their own. That they think that they would do a better job making all the decisions. And what I find to be true is that the more I learn about something, the more sympathetic I am to the people who have to make decisions that are difficult because there's not always a good and right and perfectly clean one to make. And so if we're to begin, if we're to make judgments,

concerning the lordship of Jesus Christ and his rule and his reign, our judgments ought to begin with ourselves. If there's any place where Jesus' rule and reign should not be opposed, should not be slandered, should not be cast under foot, it is the church. But man, the things he says and man, the things the scriptures declare to us, we go, oh, no, no. You can't say that. You can't do that. You can't mean that. Oh, yes, he does. without blinking or blushing in the least. And so Peter warns us it's time for the judgment to begin with the household of God. If we want to look at Jesus being the king, yes, it is true he is the king over all of creation. But too often we pass by his lordship of us, that we are his servants, that we are his people. And instead of attending to where we've been derelict in our duties, we spend all of our time talking about the unbelievers and how they haven't done what God has given them to do.

Which is not to say we shouldn't speak to them or hold them accountable, but seriously, let judgment begin in the household of God. Start with yourself first. You should ask questions of yourself like, do I submit? Do I follow? Do I believe? Do you ever feel it well up inside of you? I believe, help my unbelief. Do you have the struggle? If so, then you've begun to understand what these people were saying was that he was a king. that he came in the name of the Lord to establish peace between heaven and earth and to glorify himself. The Pharisees would have none of it. Their jealousy, their rebellion caused them to put pressure even on Jesus to tell the godly to be quiet. It's a very simple message and yet a very potent one. Teacher, rebuke your disciples. Tell them to be quiet. They're upsetting the order of things. The pressures that you and I face to shut our mouths are not new.

It's exactly what the Pharisees were saying to Jesus now with regard to the crowds. And yet in our day, I'm afraid that their rebuke has landed. We have shut up. We have shut up. Our parents before us, we shut up. We got quiet or we got comfortable. We got something that made us stop doing what these people did. The scripture warns us about it. When you become rich, you'll forget the Lord who gave you all these good things. In our society, it's very easy for us to say that there's this growing divide between the right and the left. And what I think is that both the right and the left are equally guilty of living off of the caricatures of their counterpart. They don't deal with the reality of them. Tim's not sure. But you're the one I'm thinking of as I'm saying this, because you're saying if you would just, most Democrats, or if you talk to them, like they're reasonable, like they're not these ghouls that our memes make them out to be.

Misguided, wrong, perhaps, but not what we make them out to be. Now, why is it that we can live on a steady diet of lies about our neighbor? It's very simple. It's because you don't know them. You've not spoken to them. Do you know your neighbors? Literally, the people who live next door to you. Have you talked to them? When you see them going out to get your mail, do you take a minute out of your day to ask them how they're doing or what's going on or whatever? We don't know the people who are next to us. And so it becomes much easier to believe lies about them. And the same is true in reverse. Christians are purported to be these crazy, wacko, I don't know what. Why is that lie able to be maintained? Because Christians don't open their mouths and speak. That's why. Because you and I, we don't speak. We think to ourselves, well, that's not true and they're wrong. And it's...

Okay, if it is true, then why don't we say, that's not true. That's not what the Bible says, or that is what the Bible says, but here's why it's good. We recoil into ourselves and into our caves, and we talk to ourselves about how good and right and true everything we say and believe is. But God's not praised by that. He's not glorified by that. If all of these who'd been healed had said, praise God. From their home, we wouldn't have this account. Would we? No. They spoke. We ought to speak. I don't have the personality to speak. I'm busy. There's no one for me. I'm a busy whatever I do for a day. I don't have time. Sure you do. You work at home. And yet you go out to get your coffee and you go out to get your haircut and you go out to the grocery store and you go around people. You work from home?

Okay, do you talk to anybody on the phone, on the computer? You can't possibly expect me to believe that you don't talk to some people every single day. I mean, really? Really? My point in bringing this up isn't simply to point out our failures and make us feel bad about ourselves. That is the first part of the process, but that's not the end of it. It's that as you hear these things and as you consider these things along with me that you go, that's right. My mouth has been shut up for too long. And I need to speak, and I don't know what to say, but I'm going to speak. What will they think of me? It doesn't matter what they think of you. It really doesn't. It really doesn't. And I'd point to your own experience to demonstrate this. When you meet someone who will speak and tell you what they think about whatever it is, do you hate them? You may well not like what they're saying. They may be dead wrong about whatever they're talking about. But do you despise them because they speak? No.

You're like, I'm glad somebody says it. Say it. Say it. Don't listen to the Pharisees. Don't listen to them. When should I do it? From every day on, starting today. That's when. When was the last time you invited somebody to church? Maybe you have invited people to church and they're like, I'm too busy. I can't come. I can't, you know. Why don't we do it? Why don't I do it? I'm not just talking to you. I'm talking to me. Why don't we do it? It's got better things to do. It's uncomfortable. It'll upset my evening. I'll be late for dinner. They got problems. I don't know what to say. They might not like me. I'll tell you what, when you get to talking to people, real people, not just like the memes of them, you'll realize how wrong you are about many people. And I'm not up here standing and saying, people are really good people. You know, they're not sinners.

That's not what I'm up here to say, but to you in this room, that's not what I need to continually say to you. What I need to say to you is, would you please talk to your neighbors? Have dessert with them. Invite them to your book club. Take your kids to the park with them. Like, don't submit to the Pharisees' words. Be quiet. Speak. Jesus answers and says to them, I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out. And what should we learn from this? Simply that if you won't speak, and give glory to God, which is what they were doing, then someone else will. God will get his glory. He'll get it. He may not get it from you or me or from America, but he'll get it. You think, how could a rock cry out? How does a rock cry out? Is Jesus literally saying, the rocks are going to speak? Maybe. He could make them speak if he wanted to. He made water come out of rocks.

He made water stand up in walls so his people, he could make them utter words if he wanted to, right? The donkey spoke to Balaam, okay? He could make them produce words or rocks could give glory to God by being rocks in the same way that trees give glory to God by producing their flowers and they try hard, right? If you go out and you look at the trees that are flowering, they're giving glory to God because God made them. They're beautiful. All the magnolias' buds are breaking right now, and they're about to pop open. And all these beautiful big white and pink flowers are going to be all over. And the forsythias, all these bright yellow flowers right now, they're giving glory to God. They're doing everything they can to say, look at the God who made me. Isn't he glorious? In their way, according to the way he made them. Now, why is it that man, the race of man, that bears the image of God should be outdone by rocks and trees in their giving glory to God. You should not want to lose that race. You should do what they do, which is what you were created to do. One of the conversations I've had with my kids a number of times is they say, well, why did God create anything? And we have to have this conversation because they're like, did he need something? And I say, no, he created the world and the heavens and everything else.

Not because he needed anything, not because he lacked anything, but because he wanted to. So that all of creation, from the rocks to you and me, would give glory to him. Now, did he lack any glory? Was he like, man, I need to pump up my glory a little bit. I think I'll make heaven and earth. Nope. So why did he make us this? The whole purpose, the chief purpose, above all else, was so that he would be glorified. That his glory and his love and his majesty and his justice and his wisdom and his power and all of his attributes would be demonstrated and revealed to us so that we would glorify him because of it. That's why you're here. And I don't mean here in this building, I mean here on this earth. It's to give glory to God. And so when Jesus says to him, I'll tell you if these become silent, the stones will cry out, what he's saying is, I'll have my glory.

God will have his glory. You exist to give me glory, says Jesus. And if you won't do it, they will. And so when you go out and you look around and you see trees growing and you see the grass growing and the little crocuses and all of that stuff, you should think all of creation right now in the springtime is doing its work of glorifying God. And I should be a part of it. So how are you a part of it? Well, you're not going to sprout flowers. God's given you a better way to glorify him than that. He's given you a mouth. He's given you language. He's given you a mind to speak and a body to live and to demonstrate the things you believe. You think about Jesus going into the city. Those trees that grew those fronds that were cut off and laid down before him, those trees said, if we could speak about trees in this way, if they were thinking beings,

They think, I'm growing this leaf so it can be cut off and laid on the ground for my king to walk on. Those coats that people took off and laid on the donkey and laid on the ground were made and sewn together and brought that day so that he could use them. And the same is true of us. Same is true of us. So my application is very simple. You were made to glorify God. You were made to use your mouth. and your mind and your words and your life to give glory to God. And when you go out in his creation and you look around, you should look and be like, how is he being glorified by all of this? The sun shines bright every single day because the sun was created to give glory to God by providing light to the earth and warmth. That's its purpose and it does it without fail. It does it every day, all day, 24 hours a day, it does it. And the earth turns around on its axis so that all of it can see the sun doing its work.

And when it's not the sun, we have the moon and the stars. All of creation is giving glory to God, doing its work happily, cheerfully, and we ought to as well. Don't be outdone by creation. Look around and see. If the trees can bloom, I can speak. If the grass can grow, I can confess with my mouth. You can. And here's the last thing I'll tell you about it. When you do it, you'll have joy. It'll be a joyful thing to you. It'll be a joyful thing to you. You'll be happy. You'll fumble through it. You won't know what to say. Inevitably, you'll say something dumb or embarrassing or whatever. That's all right. That's all right. Don't be such a perfectionist. Give glory to God, just like the people did as he came into the city. They were all made for that day. Those trees, those coats, that path, those cities. Give glory to God. Speak. Open your mouths and testify to the goodness of God to you. Do you know what he's done for me? I know what people say about Christians, but I'm a Christian, and why don't you get your information from me about it? Tell the truth. Let's pray.