I want to talk about Palm Sunday because many of you might know, I went to Moody Bible Institute

for, I took Jewish studies. And why did I take Jewish studies? I often say is because Jesus was Jewish.

And if he was Chinese, I would have taken Chinese studies. So you go there because I wanted to learn

the background of the Bible, ultimately, to teach the Bible and understand

everything that's going on. And then I went into archaeology as well for a master's degree.

Not so much that I wanted to be an archaeologist, even though you have these Indiana Jones-type dreams.

And then when you have three young daughters, you go, yeah, that's not going to work.

And so going into pastoral ministry, I thought my main goal was simply, again, to learn the

background of the Bible in order to teach it well, because we know the Bible is a big book.

And there's a lot of history there.

So I want to show you a couple things here.

We'll see if hopefully this is work. Yep, there we go. So the question for us today is the sermon is

Palm Sunday using Jesus for our own ends. And if we let's take an examination, or at least an

assessment of what is the Christian culture today in the sense of very generalized, not so much.

I mean, this is a solid Bible-believing evangelical church that studies actually studies and believes the Bible.

This is pretty rare, right?

We talk often in prophecy that, yeah, unfortunately, that we are living in the age of Laodicea,

where most of the church is completely woke or they seek to be politically correct.

They deny really the gospel.

The gospel has become what we understand as a social gospel.

The other benefit here is we're in Oklahoma. Now, I grew up in Oregon.

Imagine that. And Oregon is, was always liberal, but now it's like gone off the rails in that sense.

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