I want to talk to some people today who are living in controversy.

You got your lovers and you got your haters.

You're standing in the middle of so much noise.

Jesus was the only one who could be the mediator

and had he not been able to function between two mountains

and between two thieves and between two opinions.

Then he wouldn't be able to exist as a mediator between God and man.

Balance is in the middle.

You can't balance anything you can't center.

That's what I want you to get out of this message today.

Knowing in the noise.

What a precarious place to sit between John and Judas and to know who you are to the point that you can eat.

Can you eat between John and Judas?

Hey! Can you walk between Mount Olive and Mount Calvary only brings the question of can you eat between John and Judas? Can you exist between two opinions?

Hosanna, you're the king. You should tell your people to shut up. And Jesus has to exist

between two opinions without trying to fix either one of them. He doesn't have time to go back

and explain to them, yes, I'm the king, but this is not the messianic age where I can set things

up the way you want. I'm going to the cross. He doesn't have time to delay his travel dealing with his critics.

He has to live between two opinions without acquiescing to either one.

They know that he will die being a better man than they thought he was.

But they also know that though they thought he was good, he was not going to be good in the way that they expected.

And he had to live between two opinions. I want to talk to some people today who are living in controversy.

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