This is week three of a brand new series called Entry and End Times, where we're walking through

Matthew chapter 21 to 25 together.

And in this series we're doing two things.

We are marveling at the final actions of Christ in the final weeks or days of his life.

And we are going to be awakened.

I'm telling you, on the back half of the series, it's going to be heat.

We are going to be awakened by the words of Christ, about what Christ said, about what's going to happen in the end times for this nation, for the nations of the world, and nobody's going to escape that.

And we would do ourselves a favor to be those who are informed and those who are saved when those times come upon us.

Amen, anybody.

Our text today is coming from Matthew chapter 12, verse 21 or Matthew chapter 21, verse 18 through 22.

Eternal God and a wise father.

Lord, I just asking humility for strength to proclaim your word. I ask that you would open the eyes of your sons and daughters.

I pray that you would encourage us and strengthen us and that we leave here full of faith and full of fire.

I ask us in the mighty and the majestic and the matchless name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

And all God's people said, amen.

Well, family, as I was kind of sitting with this text this week, I was thinking about something that I've experienced personally and something I know that is very difficult for a lot of

people.

And as I was wrestling with this text, one of the things I was thinking about this week is that

probably the most painful, emotional cocktail that a human being will ever feel in their

heart is when true love is met by rejection.

When someone you love with your whole heart does not accept your love or buffets your love

or rejects your love, that cocktail, that mixture of pure love and rejection is probably

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