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Lords Prayer Before we begin today’s sermon would you join me in praying the words our Lord taught us to pray? Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be donein earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: Amen Introduction Please stand for the reading of God’s Word. Luke 19:41-48 ESV  And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it,  (42)  saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.  (43)  For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side  (44)  and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”  (45)  And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold,  (46)  saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”  (47)  And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him,  (48)  but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words. You may be seated You know there are so many sermons I could preach from this passage.I could probably spend a year or so in just these 7 verses, preaching and teaching on them and their implications… But as I sat down to write, and I started to pick them apart, and read line by line, I felt… well I felt like I was missing it.Have you ever heard the phrase “You can’t see the forest for the trees”?… it means you are so focused on the details that you miss the overall meaning…You are so focused on each individual tree that you don’t see the massive beautiful forest….And that is how I was feeling about this section of scripture… I was focusing on each individual detail…Jesus weeps over Jerusalem… that will preach!You don’t know that things that make for peace! Man that will preach.You enemies will surround you, they will destroy you, they won’t leave one stone upon another… boy oh boy could I preach how sin is our enemy and will destroy us in exactly that way!And what about Jesus going into the temple… grabbing a whip and driving the merchants out? That’s got to be a series in and of itself…BUT THEN I SAW THE FOREST… and what a beut she is! BRING UP TITLE SLIDE It’s either Holy, or it Ain’t!It is either holy and perfect and righteousOr it is sinful and flawed and doomedThere is no in-between, there is no such thing as almost holy, there is no kind of holy, there is no mostly holy…It’s either holy or it ain’t!Jeruselam is supposed to be Holy, but it wasn’t…The temple was supposed to be Holy, but it wasn’t…And now the only human on earth who could truly claim to be Holy by His own accord is entering His city, and the temple that was supposed to be His…And there is a meeting of water and oil.Of fire and ice.Of Holy and Sinful.And it wasn’t pretty…. Let’s pray. Pray Pray Pray Pray Pray Pray Pray Pray Pray Pray Pray Pray Pray Pray Point One – Holiness and Sinfulness Cannot mix. Luke 19:41-42 ESV  And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it,  (42)  saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Oh Jerusalem, if you knew the things that made for peace… Jesus says, weeping over Jerusalem. Matthew 5:9 ESV  “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Here Jesus comes into Jerusalem that is supposed to be a holy city filled with a holy people.A people who are supposed to be after God’s own heart…A people who would even call themselves sons and daughters of God.But for them to be called sons and daugh